The curse of the white flashes

I have dark mode turned on in the settings. It looks very nice, well done.

Came in this morning, the room is a still dim, changed tabs, and the browser flashed like a camera flash. Changed another tab, the same. I got flashed 4 times. Now have eye strain and it is not even 8am yet …

This has been reported for Brave at least four times in the past, all closed ‘after 30 days’:

This bug has afflicted other browsers also, including Firefox and Chrome for at least a decade. It was reported as a bug on each, leading to long discussions. At times claims were made that it was fixed, but either it quickly came back again, or was not ever actually fixed. I guess it must be in a common engine between the three browsers.

I am a little surprised that it has never been fixed, as it is an eye health issue. When you young developers get older you will know - and perhaps it will happen to you sooner because of this. Of course eye strain is what drove many of us to use dark mode in the first place.

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