diff --git a/background/style-manager.js b/background/style-manager.js
index b0e3b649..8bbf3d69 100644
--- a/background/style-manager.js
+++ b/background/style-manager.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* global API msg */// msg.js
-/* global CHROME URLS stringAsRegExp tryRegExp tryURL */// toolbox.js
+/* global CHROME URLS isEmptyObj stringAsRegExp tryRegExp tryURL */// toolbox.js
 /* global bgReady compareRevision */// common.js
 /* global calcStyleDigest styleCodeEmpty styleSectionGlobal */// sections-util.js
 /* global db */
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ const styleMan = (() => {
 
   async function init() {
     const styles = await db.exec('getAll') || [];
-    const updated = styles.filter(fixKnownProblems);
+    const updated = await Promise.all(styles.map(fixKnownProblems).filter(Boolean));
     if (updated.length) {
       await db.exec('putMany', updated);
     }
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ const styleMan = (() => {
     bgReady._resolveStyles();
   }
 
-  function fixKnownProblems(style) {
+  function fixKnownProblems(style, initIndex, initArray) {
     let res = 0;
     for (const key in MISSING_PROPS) {
       if (!style[key]) {
@@ -523,7 +523,17 @@ const styleMan = (() => {
       if (!style.url) res = style.url = url;
       if (!style.installationUrl) res = style.installationUrl = url;
     }
-    return Boolean(res);
+    /* @import must precede `vars` that we add at beginning */
+    if (
+      initArray &&
+      !isEmptyObj((style.usercssData || {}).vars) &&
+      style.sections.some(({code}) =>
+        code.startsWith(':root {\n  --') &&
+        /@import\s/i.test(code))
+    ) {
+      return usercssMan.buildCode(style);
+    }
+    return res && style;
   }
 
   function urlMatchStyle(query, style) {
diff --git a/js/csslint/parserlib.js b/js/csslint/parserlib.js
index de5a9cf9..cdef79a3 100644
--- a/js/csslint/parserlib.js
+++ b/js/csslint/parserlib.js
@@ -4678,6 +4678,7 @@ self.parserlib = (() => {
   //#endregion
   //#region PUBLIC API
 
+  /** @namespace parserlib */
   return {
     css: {
       Colors,
diff --git a/js/sections-util.js b/js/sections-util.js
index 3ef5e7d4..f9e679ab 100644
--- a/js/sections-util.js
+++ b/js/sections-util.js
@@ -71,12 +71,15 @@ function styleCodeEmpty(code) {
   if (!code) {
     return true;
   }
+  let lastIndex = 0;
   const rx = /\s+|\/\*([^*]|\*(?!\/))*(\*\/|$)|@namespace[^;]+;|@charset[^;]+;/giyu;
   while (rx.exec(code)) {
-    if (rx.lastIndex === code.length) {
+    lastIndex = rx.lastIndex;
+    if (lastIndex === code.length) {
       return true;
     }
   }
+  styleCodeEmpty.lastIndex = lastIndex;
   return false;
 }
 
diff --git a/js/usercss-compiler.js b/js/usercss-compiler.js
index 9440a44a..764afb38 100644
--- a/js/usercss-compiler.js
+++ b/js/usercss-compiler.js
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ const BUILDERS = Object.assign(Object.create(null), {
       varDef = ':root {\n' + varDef + '}\n';
       for (const section of sections) {
         if (!styleCodeEmpty(section.code)) {
-          section.code = varDef + section.code;
+          spliceCssAfterGlobals(section, varDef, styleCodeEmpty.lastIndex);
         }
       }
     },
@@ -165,3 +165,23 @@ function simplifyUsercssVars(vars) {
     va.value = value;
   }
 }
+
+function spliceCssAfterGlobals(section, newText, after) {
+  const {code} = section;
+  const RX_IMPORT = /@import\s/gi;
+  RX_IMPORT.lastIndex = after;
+  if (RX_IMPORT.test(code)) {
+    require(['/js/csslint/parserlib']); /* global parserlib */
+    const parser = new parserlib.css.Parser();
+    parser._tokenStream = new parserlib.css.TokenStream(code);
+    parser._sheetGlobals();
+    const {col, line, offset} = parser._tokenStream._token;
+    // normalizing newlines in non-usercss to match line:col from parserlib
+    if ((code.indexOf('\r') + 1 || 1e99) - 1 < offset) {
+      after = col + code.split('\n', line).reduce((len, s) => len + s.length + 1, 0);
+    } else {
+      after = offset + 1;
+    }
+  }
+  section.code = (after ? code.slice(0, after) + '\n' : '') + newText + code.slice(after);
+}