White background of loading images hurts my eyes!

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Adolf Stalin
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White background of loading images hurts my eyes!

Post by Adolf Stalin »

I'm getting really tired of half my screen flashing 100% white every couple of seconds while I'm sitting in a dark room. I set all of my software to dark mode because it's easy on the eyes.

Here's an example: https://dai.ly/k7wttjQ4xQVAf4z97GT

Can anything be done about this?
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Re: White background of loading images hurts my eyes!

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Try running in Firefox "Safe Mode".
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode
This disables your extensions & uses the default theme for fault finding.
NB: Your plug-ins are not disabled.

If Firefox is O.K. in Safe Mode then it's an extension or Theme causing it.
Run Firefox in normal mode & disable them all. Re-start Firefox.
Enable each in turn, or by ½'s, re-starting Firefox each time, till the faulty extension is found.
Either update or un-install it.


&....If I may offer a suggestion...
You might like to try adding a small lamp with a low wattage globe, say about 15 or 25 Watts.
Just aim it at a back ground wall or whatever.
It takes away all the glare & surprisingly, helps you see the screen a little better.
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Re: White background of loading images hurts my eyes!

Post by therube »

(Daily Motion hurt my eyes, so I downloaded the video ;-).)


URL of the page where this is happening?


white flash didn't really have any fixes, particularly - that I saw.

Though about:prefs holds "dark" prefs that you might tinker with to see if adjusting the color might help any (or not)?
(Like; browser.display.background_color.dark & browser.display.foreground_color.dark)

Hex color codes.
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
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Re: White background of loading images hurts my eyes!

Post by morat »

Try a toggling black theme bookmarklet.

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javascript:(function () {
  var element = document.getElementById("blackify");
  if (element) {
    element.parentNode.removeChild(element);
  } else {
    var style = document.createElement("style");
    style.type = "text/css";
    style.id = "blackify";
    style.textContent = [
      "* { background: #000000 !important; }",
      "* { color: #CCCCCC !important; }",
      "a { color: #FFCC66 !important; }",
      "a:link { color: #FFCC66 !important; }",
      "a:visited { color: #FFB720 !important; }",
      "a:hover { color: #FFFFCC !important; }",
      "a:active { color: #FFFFCC !important; }",
    ].join("\n");
    if (document.head) {
      document.head.appendChild(style);
    } else {
      document.documentElement.appendChild(style);
    }
  }
})();
Bookmarklet Builder
http://subsimple.com/bookmarklets/jsbuilder.htm

P.S.

Buy a pair of fit over blue light blocking polarized sunglasses. Sometimes I wear these sunglasses at the computer when my eyes get tired.
Adolf Stalin
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Re: White background of loading images hurts my eyes!

Post by Adolf Stalin »

therube wrote:URL of the page where this is happening?

white flash didn't really have any fixes, particularly - that I saw.

Though about:prefs holds "dark" prefs that you might tinker with to see if adjusting the color might help any (or not)?
(Like; browser.display.background_color.dark & browser.display.foreground_color.dark)

Hex color codes.
Example URL: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/502 ... 424e_o.jpg

browser.display.background_color.dark = #1C1B22

browser.display.foreground_color.dark = #FBFBFE (changed it to #000000, but nothing changed)
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Re: White background of loading images hurts my eyes!

Post by morat »

The issue turns the screen to white while loading images and ruins the dark mode experience.

AFAIK, there is no pref fix or style tweak workaround.

White background during image loading
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1556156
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1808149

For reading only as Bugzilla is not a forum.
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Re: White background of loading images hurts my eyes!

Post by Adolf Stalin »

morat wrote:The issue turns the screen to white while loading images and ruins the dark mode experience.

AFAIK, there is no pref fix or style tweak workaround.

White background during image loading
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1556156
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1808149

For reading only as Bugzilla is not a forum.
Damn, that sucks. I just tried Chromium and the unloaded part of the image is dark grey. Much better. It can't be that hard to implement, can it?
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Re: White background of loading images hurts my eyes!

Post by morat »

I don't know how difficult the fix would be to implement and test.

The issue is likely seen as low importance by the developers.
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