Default white loading screen should be black/grayish
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Many times i found myself flash by overly abundance of white screen color for a few seconds when a webpage is (pre)loading. This unexpected flashing hurt my eyes a lot, especially in the dark.
I think Vivaldi need to replace the default white background with something much comfortable to the eyes, like black or grayish background during webpage (pre)loading. Or maybe replace it with the huge "V" logo during Vivaldi startup plus a "LOADING..." message.
Thanks.
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Yes please.
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Instead of just picking black or a specific colour, perhaps it would be best derived from the current theme's "background" colour.
For example:
- If a user already has a light theme, it doesn't make much difference to show a light colour loading screen.
- However, if a user has a dark theme, then it would make more sense to show a darker colour during loading of a new page.
This would also allow the page to be coloured a specific hue (green, red, brown) depending on a users theme.
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After more than half a year, this is still not implemented.
Anyone know if we can mod this white page with custom CSS?
I would do it myself if it's possible, thanks.
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This is something that's been happening in Chrome for years. One of the (very many) reasons I can't stand Chrome. Vivaldi is of course a lot better, but inherits a lot of the annoying things about Chrome...
Fixes would probably have to come from the Chromium devs.
For instance, give the user the ability to change the default white shown when a new tab is opening, or a page is loading. Or better, read the background color of the site being opened and apply that before redrawing the page.
I found the following old threads and possible fixes, I would guess none would work after so many years, and Vivaldi isn't strictly Chrome either.
https://superuser.com/questions/831742/how-do-you-change-chromes-background-color
https://superuser.com/questions/580228/prevent-white-screen-before-loading-page-in-chromium
http://jollo.org/LNT/public/chrome-white-flash.html
https://github.com/hbtlabs/chromium-white-flash-fix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfJ_EwSTevI&feature=youtu.be
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=21798The last one is interesting, it started back in 2009...
Apparently someone in Chromium started caring enough about it nearly 10 years later, and there is talk of a fix on the last posts from early this year. But unless you're a developer, it's not clear what. So not sure if Vivaldi is on that version or what can be done about it.
Hope Vivaldi devs can fix this instead, and let us set a background, or let the theme background decide like @LonM says above.
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@pathduck said in Accessibility Feature: Default white loading screen should be black/grayish:
Fixes would probably have to come from the Chromium devs.
Not necessarily. The vivaldi devs have full access to the chromium source code, so they could offer a fix of some kind, and then potentially upstream it back to chrome.
Alternatively, anyone in the community who wants to make such a fix (if anyone actually knew how), they could share that in an open source fashion and the vivaldi devs could pick up on it.
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Reported as VB-43215.
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@lonm There is no need to come up with a fix, it already exists.
https://github.com/hbtlabs/chromium-white-flash-fixVivaldi could make it dependent on theme color or something.
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Another way - which rely on Dark Reader - seems to be on store.
(Not sure if it can work with vivaldi as need a "chrome dark theme" which we can't use)A fix/patch - as the one above - would be nicer.
I guess the issues started when chrome changed the chrome://newtab to their own with speed dial.
I remember there was (untested) an old userscript/extension to hook colour pages before that (chr39-40?).
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@hadden89 said in Accessibility Feature: Default white loading screen should be black/grayish:
(Not sure if it can work with vivaldi as need a "chrome dark theme" which we can't use)
You can actually install themes from the web store. They don't actually do anything, but you can install them. You then need to go to chrome://settings to remove it.
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@lonm Yup, but as Vivaldi actually ignore them, could ignore even the "flash fix" made from the extensions.
Probably I've to try it with chrome, but I'm not sure a 2,5/5 star extension still works.EDIT
Seems to works on chrome beta. -
This issue is fixed now in recent builds. Anyone know when it was added?
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@Pesala I think that this item
[UI] Blank page before a website loads now follows the theme background color VB-46504
On this changelog https://vivaldi.com/blog/snapshots/more-quick-commands-keyboard-shortcuts-and-customization-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-1386-4/
Is the fix