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flashing a white screen while open new tab
just used spoiler tag for protect eye. do not click spoiler tag if you're in dark.
I'm using microsoft edge insider beta. white flashing shows up while open new tab. It's pretty blinding at night. this problem need to be fixed.
Hi,
It's nice to know that feature is rolled to the Beta as well, that means it is no longer a controlled roll out feature!
Yes it's happening to Canary and Dev too, I can easily reproduce it by going to my new tab and refresh the page multiple times.
I think at the first millisecond, it loads the white theme New tab page and then it realizes, Oh user is having dark theme enabled, then it loads the dark background version instead.
of course all of these happen in matter of milliseconds or microseconds that's why the end user sees only a flash.I think the solution would be for the Dev team to prevent Edge from assuming that the default theme is white for everyone, Edge can drop that assumption when the user changes the browser theme in edge://settings/appearance .
2025 and the problem persists....
2024, the problem still exists. come on!
- *Still* happening June 2021.
- 2022 still happening. May as well just write a script to post this every year. See you next year byyyee
- MissyQ
Microsoft
Appreciate the update on the status of this, everyone! I've passed on this information to the right people. Let me know if you notice anything change, so I can update those people as needed. 🙂
Missy Quarry (she/her/hers)
Community Manager - Microsoft Edge- This is still happening. Please fix it. Open a bookmark or link in a new tab and switch to the tab immediately, white flash. Starting Edge, white flash. All this with dark theme and force dark in flags turned on.
Dont use your device at night in the dark. Its straining on the eyes in general. I dont see this as a real issue, more of an annoyance. Why not just use a different browser. Its kind of like telling a car manufacturer you dont like the sound of the engine so you want a new engine. Not very logical IMO
- Mine also does this sometimes, I believe it does so when it takes time for the browser to load the page. It doesn't bother me but I think it's fair to correct for those who are uncomfortable.
- there's a flag for it in Chromium but they haven't done any work on it yet I believe.
- Just hit this bug last night and I'm glad there's already a post on this!
A fix for this would go a long way for dark mode polish. - The white flash when you open a New tab is an Edge bug, not a Chrome bug. I have Chrome open and I keep opening New tabs and there is no white flash, so Microsoft has to fix this issue because it's specific to Edge.
Deleted This problem has been present in Chrome for a long time and, despite the multiple requests, they have not yet fixed it, will Edge developers fix it? hopefully they can do it.
- It's obvious having lots of users and big market share made Google reluctant to listen to their users feedback like before.
HotCakeXI feel like Chrome is going to end up like Internet explorer. History repeats itself.
79% market share at peak 95% market share at peak Didn't add features that people wanted Doesn't add features people want
Relied on monopolistic practices to keep users Relies on monopolistic practices to keep users Moved away from benchmarks because they could and the internet would follow Moved away from benchmarks because the internet follows them and they get away with it Little to no development to keep competitive. Little development to advance the web.
