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How to disable blue flash when tab loads in FF 76 for Mac?

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Jessamyn
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Whenever I load a website, there is a brief left-to-right blue streak across the tab when that website loads. I would prefer to not have this, it's not matchy with anything else on my desktop and I find the animation distracting.

It doesn't seem to be connected to any of my add-ons. I'm using the Firefox Light theme. Is this just a theme thing, and I should get a different one? Or is there a way to get this to stop.I checked about:config and past forum discussions and didn't see anything obvious. Thank you!

Whenever I load a website, there is a brief left-to-right blue streak across the tab when that website loads. I would prefer to not have this, it's not matchy with anything else on my desktop and I find the animation distracting. It doesn't seem to be connected to any of my add-ons. I'm using the Firefox Light theme. Is this just a theme thing, and I should get a different one? Or is there a way to get this to stop.I checked about:config and past forum discussions and didn't see anything obvious. Thank you!
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That is the loading throbber that is shown on a tab when this tab is busy loading the page.
In the past it used to be a rotating PNG image, but in current Firefox releases this is a dot moving left and right.

See this thread for some suggestions about code in userChrome.css.

See also:

In Firefox 69 and later you need to set this pref to true on the about:config page to enable userChrome.css and userContent.css in the chrome folder.

  • toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets = true

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Chosen Solution

That is the loading throbber that is shown on a tab when this tab is busy loading the page.
In the past it used to be a rotating PNG image, but in current Firefox releases this is a dot moving left and right.

See this thread for some suggestions about code in userChrome.css.

See also:

In Firefox 69 and later you need to set this pref to true on the about:config page to enable userChrome.css and userContent.css in the chrome folder.

  • toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets = true

See:

Jessamyn
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You have made this twitchy nerd very happy. I already had FF set up to enable userChrome.css for other reasons,so this was a quick fix. Thank you!