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I stopped using these types of tools a while ago because I always disliked the bright flash that was created when the page was initially loading but before the plugin was executed. I would always try to take a long blink when I clicked a link lol.

Has this problem been solved shy from using lynx/emacs/ect?

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IIRC, Stylish for Chrome fixed this a while ago and Stylish for Firefox never had this issue to begin with.

JS-based styles are still subject to a bit of delay because of script parsing/executing in case you're using those.

I haven't tried to work around that problem, but I see at least Firefox appears to allow you to change it from white: browser.display.background_color

I had a nice dark background and light foreground colour going for a few months but had to end up disabling it. Sadly, a ton of websites assume that text is dark and background is light, and don't specify one or the other in their CSS, so their sites look terrible unless one turns off site stylesheets entirely (in which case their sites look really terrible, but in a completely different way).

I really, really hate what the web has become. Twenty years ago I could set my foreground and background colours and everything Just Worked™. Now … forget about it!

I recommend using this with Stylish Firefox addon (don't know about Chrome), you won't have this problem

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