Hello: after the latest update (24/06/25) Chrome is having artifacts on screen. Changes colors, some text is set to the background color, color of a row of text changes as I roll the pointer, the works. Does not disrupt my job but god is annoying AF. Thought to upgrade from the repository but it's the same version, I'll leave it for later. It's only Chrome with the problem since everything else works OK, like Firefox. Any of you have this occurring to you?
Greets.
The machine is an old Dell Vostro with a Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD and Intel integrated 945 graphics GPU that I'm repurposing as a SOHO server and weirdly, a Wifi card with proprietary driver.
Edited for machine specs.
Testing this on Zorin OS Lite, using Xorg, Nvidia RTX 3060; 570 driver, no issues at all.
What Graphics are you using and what is your Display Protocol? Wayland or Xorg?
This version here is Core 17.3 with Xorg protocol. Graphics is either Intel 915 or 945, hardinfo doesn't provide that bit. Never happened until today.
Is hardware Acceleration enabled in Chrome?
Do you use flatpak or .deb version of Chrome?
If you use flatpak you could try it with .deb. Please remove flatpak version before.
Perhaps this can also help you:
Enter "chrome://flags" in the URL bar, search ANGLE, and change API from default to OpenGL.
Do You have the same Issue with Brave?
Yes it is.
I shall try that. After today's update it STILL looks funny albeit in a different way.
No sorry, I don't have Brave installed.
I recommend disabling H.A. and testing.
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I met the same issue as yours, but I'm using Windows 10, maybe it's a bug of chrome.
Hello all. This little browser keeps crapping out on me but since Google yet again decided to deactivate uBlock Origin and as consequence ads came flooding in I deactivated Google for good. I'm not taking it out and putting it out of its misery since it's not even worth the bullet but out with Chrome goes Google search and all features I can dispose of as well and make do with Duckduckgo and see how Google-less I can be.
So I'm marking the problem as "solved" and it'll be all. This machine will be repurposed for something like a media server or something -it has a 1 TB SSD- and get me something more modern like an 11th Gen Intel machine in the league of i7 to Xeon W if I can help it and call it a day. This old machine served me well and a looong time and deserves its place in my bookshelf instead of going to waste or worse (I hate waste).
So thanks all for your replies.
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