Thegreatsuspender: White flash while tab browsing

Created on 25 Sep 2019 · 8Comments · Source: greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender

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Extension version: v7.1.0
Browser name & version: Brave
Operating system & version: Pop OS 19.04 - kernel 5.3

I love darkmode, however when I'm browsing tabs with alt+tab, sometimes the pages flash white for a milisec, and go back to darkmode again. I also see this behaviour with a light theme, however then it's not as visible. The flashes are quite annoying.

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Davincible

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Yeah this white flash is quite jarring, especially for those of us that work at night.

wisteso on 30 Oct 2019

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I was just going to create an issue for this.
Same thing on MacOS (Mojave 10.14.6), same extension version (7.1.0) in Chrome (77.0.3865.90 (Official Build) (64-bit))

roko-p on 27 Sep 2019

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This is happening also on Win 10 Pro(1903), same extension version (7.1.0) in Brave (Version 0.69.135 Chromium: 77.0.3865.120, Official Build, 64-bit), using browser flag 'Dark mode'.
At night time the white flashing is extra irritating and eye straining.

ryanlynx on 14 Oct 2019

This is happening also on Win 10 Pro(1903), same extension version (7.1.0) in Brave (Version 0.69.135 Chromium: 77.0.3865.120, Official Build, 64-bit), using browser flag 'Dark mode'.
At night time the white flashing is extra irritating and eye straining.

So one interim fix I found was to not use 'dark mode' that is found under the settings for this plugin.

ryanlynx on 16 Oct 2019

Yeah this white flash is quite jarring, especially for those of us that work at night.

wisteso on 30 Oct 2019

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Exactly... still no response though. Think I'll look for a tab suspender without this issue

Davincible on 30 Oct 2019

Just enable this and any white flash is gone.
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Cheers.

MichelDiz on 10 Nov 2019

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Why is this unconfirmed? Multiple users are reporting this. Though seems we have a workaround with the chrome flags

wisteso on 11 Jun 2020

I'm still seeing this bug on osx 10.15.7 running Google Chrome Version 87.0.4280.88 (Official Build) (x86_64) with greatsuspender version v7.1.8.

I tried the temporary workaround to tell chrome to force dark mode, but it's no good. It does weird things on YouTube and there's still a flash when switching between two suspended tabs. It just flashes to black instead of flashing to white.