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    White screen 'flashbang' when opening pages

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    • leocg
      leocg Moderator Volunteer @jenabaivab last edited by

      @jenabaivab Because there don't seem to be a definitive fix yet, just attempts.

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer @andrew84 last edited by

        @andrew84 If i remember correctly, it was discussed in the forum/blog.

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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by

          I too have this problem. It's so annoying and painful especially at night.
          Everything was great in 67 version but after 67 version (68, 69, 70, 71 versions) something was broken. After all this time there's no fix. Seems it's time to another browser hopping.

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          • jenabaivab
            jenabaivab @Guest last edited by

            @zerescas Same. Can't work anymore with so many flashes. And it's the brightest shade too. Resorting to Edge Chromium now till a fix arrives at least.

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            • daniel9895
              daniel9895 last edited by

              I've been using Opera along with Dark reader extension for complete dark mode. But everytime opera loads a page there is a brief flash of pure white page before the page loads and it is very blinding and frustrating to see every time I click on a link.

              It does not happen in any of the other browsers that I use. Is there any fix for this? As I've noticed many other users complaining about the same issue.

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              • jenabaivab
                jenabaivab last edited by

                Tried the new developer update today. Still no fix. I don't understand anymore. 😕

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                • pinkodu
                  pinkodu last edited by

                  Are Devs gonna fix it? Is there any information?

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                  • daniel9895
                    daniel9895 last edited by

                    Wow, its been months and till now the devs don't even seem to acknowledge the issue.

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                    • jenabaivab
                      jenabaivab @daniel9895 last edited by

                      @daniel9895 I'm starting to think they don't consider it an issue anymore, otherwise there is no way development team as reputed as Opera doesn't even acknowledge widespread bugs, let alone fix them fast like any dev team would do.

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                      • zauberfritz
                        zauberfritz @Guest last edited by zauberfritz

                        @athlonite I don't know whether I have the same issue, but quite often a webpage in Opera opens to stay completely white. When I copy the address to Firefox, it opens quickly with no issues. I do, however, often have many tabs open, (about twenty), vs. max. 5 in Firefox, but his generally was fine. New PC here, i7, 16GB, so no low end, and VDSL, not slow. The result is I keep Firefox (generally only used for very specific tasks) now open all the time as backup, using it more and more.

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                        • daniel9895
                          daniel9895 @jenabaivab last edited by

                          @jenabaivab Maybe if we all could tweet about the issue instead that might get it better attention than in this forums.

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                          • A Former User
                            A Former User @zauberfritz last edited by

                            @zauberfritz Yeah I don't seem to think it's just an Opera problem I think it is an Chromium issue as it also has the same white page flash in Vivaldi aswell and I've had it happen in Edge chromium aswell

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                              tomass61 0 @STRONK last edited by

                              @STRONK I have disabled #shared-start-page in opera://flags and now everything is fine.

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                              • Pebbles1980
                                Pebbles1980 @tomass61 0 last edited by

                                @tomass61-0

                                This is absolutely fantastic!!!! fixed it for me!
                                Appreciation is not the word, thanks thanks so much.😁 😁

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                                • andrew84
                                  andrew84 last edited by
                                  1. The flag is removed in 71 version
                                  2. The flag was implemented to avoid flashes (the flash's color depends on currently active wallpaper) while creating new tabs.

                                  *Here (Win 8x64) there's a flash anyway even with the disabled flag while opening start page's tiles (just in dark theme the flash is dark).

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                                  • jenabaivab
                                    jenabaivab @andrew84 last edited by

                                    @andrew84 Same, the white flashes are still present, disabling the flag didn't help either. I still don't understand why Opera isn't trying to do anything about this, No replies from mods or developers either.

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                                    • leocg
                                      leocg Moderator Volunteer @jenabaivab last edited by

                                      @jenabaivab They are, and that flag was an attempt, but things don't seem to have been working.

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                                      • jenabaivab
                                        jenabaivab @leocg last edited by

                                        @leocg As mentioned above, the flag doesn't work for me, but it works on my father's laptop. Why did it get removed in v71 ?

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                                        • leocg
                                          leocg Moderator Volunteer @jenabaivab last edited by

                                          @jenabaivab Probably because it has been enabled in stable for a while already.

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                                          • andrew84
                                            andrew84 @leocg last edited by

                                            @leocg said in White screen 'flashbang' when opening pages:

                                            that flag was an attempt, but things don't seem to have been working

                                            @leocg said in White screen 'flashbang' when opening pages:

                                            it has been enabled in stable for a while already.

                                            Looks like contradictory. If the feature doesn't work properly, the flag shouldn't be removed.
                                            Not only regarding the flashes, but there's also some UI's elements visible from the previous tab (opened folders, scrolled page, expanded dropdown) while creating a new tab.

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