White screen 'flashbang' when opening pages
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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 last edited by
Tried the new developer update today. Still no fix. I don't understand anymore.
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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 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 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 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 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 last edited by
@STRONK I have disabled #shared-start-page in opera://flags and now everything is fine.
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Pebbles1980 last edited by
This is absolutely fantastic!!!! fixed it for me!
Appreciation is not the word, thanks thanks so much.
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andrew84 last edited by
- The flag is removed in 71 version
- 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 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 Moderator Volunteer 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 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 Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@jenabaivab Probably because it has been enabled in stable for a while already.
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andrew84 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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andrew84 last edited by andrew84
@leocg the flag (feature) was made to fix the issue.
Edit: They demonstrated in the blog the both no flash while creating new tabs and no flash while opening tiles. Check the 'Before' and 'After' demos https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2019/10/opera-65-0-3467-24-beta-update/
The first part (new tabs creating) works, but as I mentioned above, not ideally (sometimes there are visible elements from previous tabs).
The second part (this topic's issue) doesn't work currently.
What they are doing is removing the flag and that means they think the feature is fully stable and workable and they don't care that actually this is not. -
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jenabaivab last edited by leocg
@leocg the flag works for me now as well. But, it's not available in v71, and it isn't implemented in the browser either. I tried using Beta. Couldn't do anything to solve it.
