qutebrowser: mitigate flash of white between page loads

config/qutebrowser/greasemonkey/let-there-be-light.user.js

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+// ==UserScript==
+// @name        Let there be Light
+// @description Change page background to white.
+// @version     0.1
+// @author      Ingvix
+// @include     *
+// ==/UserScript==
+
+// Needed to counterbalance my colors.webpage.bg hack to prevent the blinding
+// flash of white between page loads.
+var sheet = window.document.styleSheets[0];
+sheet.insertRule('body { background-color: white; }', sheet.cssRules.length);

modules/themes/alucard/config/qutebrowser/theme.py

@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ padding = {
     'left': spacing['horizontal']
 }
 
+# HACK This is set to mitigate the blinding flash of white in between page
+#      loads. This can break sites with no explicit background, so I rely on the
+#      let-there-be-light.user.js greasemonkey script to "reset" the background.
+c.colors.webpage.bg = palette['background']
+
 ## UI
 # Scrollbar style; much less intrusive than the default
 c.scrolling.bar = "overlay"