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.
Extension stats
Rating: 3.00
(10)
Creation date: 2015-11-23
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
Size: 12.55K
Email: ch*****@rileyjshaw.com
URLs: Website
Other platforms
Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension 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
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 :(
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 :)
Extension safety
Risk impact
Reduce Background Flicker requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Reduce Background Flicker has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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