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    • Pebbles1980
      Pebbles1980 last edited by

      Thanks Challenger, Ill try that.
      Hopefully there is a proper fix shortly. Would be nice to see a Dev here saying they know about it, and are working on a official fix!

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      • andrew84
        andrew84 last edited by

        #enable-paint-holding

        Here it's enabled by default.

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        • ChallengerUS
          ChallengerUS @andrew84 last edited by

          @andrew84 That's weird. In my case it was disabled and I've never touched it before.

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          • alobpreis
            alobpreis @ChallengerUS last edited by alobpreis

            @ChallengerUS said in Flashbang while loading page:

            @andrew84 That's weird. In my case it was disabled and I've never touched it before.

            In both regular Opera and portable Opera GX I have that setting in Default [E], therefore enabled. Anyway, neither setting it to Enabled or Disabled avoided the flash I get when pressing Ctrl-F12 to open the settings.

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            • gamaposa1
              gamaposa1 last edited by

              When the browser starts, a white window appears for a second, the light very much gets into the eyes, especially in the evening.
              Using a dark theme, can this be fixed?
              You can see the problem in the video. Video

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              • andrew84
                andrew84 last edited by andrew84

                I also tried GX portable and the result is the same. I have Win8.1x64 and this could be a reason, but both of you have Win10 and the results are different. So the issue is not OS dependent.

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                • burnout426
                  burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

                  See https://forums.opera.com/topic/40541/flashbang-while-loading-page.

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                  • jenabaivab
                    jenabaivab last edited by

                    Has there been any solution for this? No other browser has this issue. Google Chrome, Brave, Edge Chromium, Firefox, all have found some workaround to this. @Pebbles1980 did you find a solution? This is very very annoying and genuinely hurting eyesight when working late into the night.

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                    • Pebbles1980
                      Pebbles1980 last edited by

                      HI mate,
                      Funny you post this, as I looked again yesterday to find nothing. Its still unnecessarily annoying.

                      Can we please have confirmation that a Developer is looking into this?

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                      • jenabaivab
                        jenabaivab @Pebbles1980 last edited by

                        @Pebbles1980 I doubt it, considering this hasn't been fixed for so long now. And if it differs user to user like I read above, it's unlikely that this will have a higher priority in the bug fixing agenda. Will have to stick with Edge chromium it seems. I have been trying to shift to opera since the last 6 months or so. It's always this very issue that stops me from porting.

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                        • jenabaivab
                          jenabaivab last edited by

                          I found multiple posts on Opera forums regarding the white screen flashbang occurrence while loading URLs. There has been no response from the Developers ins pite of the high number of posts. Does somebody know if they are working on it or not?
                          Does anyone know if there is a workaround to fix this issue please?

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                          • benclendon
                            benclendon last edited by

                            Hopefully they'll do something about it.
                            What if they have it white if your browser is light theme and a black screen if in dark theme.

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                            • jenabaivab
                              jenabaivab @benclendon last edited by

                              @benclendon I have my browser on dark theme and I use the dark reader extension as well to make my webpages dark. This is not a theme, more of a rendering issue it seems, because no other browser that I have used has this problem. Inspite of using the chromium engine.

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                                  • Pebbles1980
                                    Pebbles1980 last edited by

                                    It certainly would be good to get a reply from a dev, atleast indicating its a error, and someone is working on it?
                                    Even opening this thread results in having to look away for a few seconds while its loading. The Irony.

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                                    • leocg
                                      leocg Moderator Volunteer @Pebbles1980 last edited by

                                      @Pebbles1980 There are several attempts of fixing it in the latest versions.

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                                      • jenabaivab
                                        jenabaivab @leocg last edited by

                                        @leocg Currently on the Opera Beta version just to see this fix as early as possible. Would have been great if there was an ETA, but atleast it's being worked on.

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                                        • Pebbles1980
                                          Pebbles1980 last edited by

                                          Yep I hope its being worked on too.

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                                          • jenabaivab
                                            jenabaivab @leocg last edited by

                                            @leocg just a minor question, is this fix going to be available for Opera GX as well or that will be implemented much later?

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