Is there any way to get rid of the random "flash-bangs" in Firefox?

garage_greg

I use Firefox 140.3.0esr on Linux. Debian 13. Xfce. X11. Intel GPU. 1980 x 1080 resolution. Dark theme set in both OS and Firefox. This also happened on Plasma, and on a completely different computer. I think that it has nothing to do with my hardware/setup and everything to do with how Firefox works. Every day, I many times experience these horrible "flashes" in Firefox when loading pages, closing tabs or launching URLs from scripts/terminal....

Originally asked by user291937 on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

"we refuse to fix it for some reason" yes, I filed a bug which should give the users in this thread an idea of what is happening https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1994087 There's a video of the problem. It only happens on initial loading of specific websites, such as https://studio.youtube.com/ and it also happens in Chrome, not only Firefox. Any way to skip this loading of white background and go straight to the dark content? an adblock filter perhaps? It's not just cosmetic annoyance. This behavior causes physical distress, such as eyestrain and headaches, and no developer seems to recognize the issue. The "recommendation" to nag each and every webmaster is not an option, we...

Full answer by Easy Life: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/1934826 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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