Reduce Background Flicker

Reduce Background Flicker

Prevent that annoying white flash between pages

What is Reduce Background Flicker?
Reduce Background Flicker is a Chrome extension that prevents the blinding white flash between pages. It preserves the background color between page loads, providing a more seamless browsing experience.
Stats
Users: 115 ▲ 4
Rating: 3.00 (10)
Version: 1.0.0 (Last updated: 2015-11-23)
Creation date: 2015-11-23
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • http://*/*
  • https://*/*
Size: 12.55K
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Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Summary

Switching between dark pages on Chrome can sometimes lead to a blinding flash of white. This extension tries to preserve background color between page loads, if possible.

For the real Lords of Darkness out there, setting a custom user stylesheet to your preferred color (https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1373#c261) will probably be more effective than this extension. The same trick applies to Firefox.

Icon created by Anand A Nair from the Noun Project, CC.

User reviews
Doesn't work
by Jaiden Chaos Jaiden Chaos, 2020-09-25

Not working as i hoped, when i close a tab i get like 0.1 sec white flash, so naah i got the same without, so no reason to have it :(
by DudeSicko DudeSicko, 2018-08-30

Thank you. Since it seems like Google will never attempt to allow a colour other than white for the background when changing page (given the length of time it's been open, it's obvious they don't care - but removing useful features is A-OK!), this extension works brilliantly for pages opened on the same tab. I guess that's why it's called Reduce Background Flicker :)
by A Google user, 2017-04-20
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Safety
Risk impact

Reduce Background Flicker may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.

Risk likelihood

Reduce Background Flicker has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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