HACKER Q&A
📣 isthispermanent

What is wrong with Google Chrome?


https://imgur.com/Yqh9ILg

I've been seeing this on multiple sites. The blue/green/purple text in the divs changes as I mouse over them


  👤 rahidz Accepted Answer ✓
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/38144053?hl=en&msgi...

Has the identical problem, disabling hardware acceleration is the suggested solution.

edit: And https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=106817... for the Chromium bug


👤 raldi
Clickable version of your link, since it's a pain to select on mobile: https://imgur.com/Yqh9ILg

👤 theandrewbailey
Are you sure you don't have a hardware issue? (overheated?) That looks a lot like GPU artifacting.

👤 abnry
You have seen past the veil. You must forget you've ever seen this. Some things are too great for a human to know.

👤 anaphor
What operating system / graphics backend are you using? Do you have multiple screens? E.g. you can encounter issues with hardware acceleration on Linux if you have multiple screens.

👤 stjo
This looks a tech support ticket, not HN thread

👤 geerlingguy
I hit this same issue on some sites, but not others: https://twitter.com/geerlingguy/status/1257714544044052488

It's so strange, because neither webkit/Safari nor Firefox has ever had any issues, but Chrome does this randomly on any Mac with a GPU, it seems.


👤 jeroenhd
Looks like GPU issues or memory corruption in the browser memory.

You can try disabling hardware acceleration to prevent Chrome from using the GPU but if I were you I'd start checking if everything on my machine is backed up properly.


👤 jacobush
I thought we were going to bash on its privacy issues. Mildly disappointed.

👤 jpswade
Search for GPU artifacts in Chrome, you'll notice it's quite common, but it's less to do with Chrome and more to do with a problem with your GPU.

👤 CawCawCaw
Can we get Bruce Dawson to use this as source material for one of his deep-dive angry rants about software quality?

👤 mschuster91
Last time I've been seeing this was back in 2010-such with the infamous Nvidia mobile GPU solder issue O.o

👤 prpl
Try rebooting your machine. I had this issue two weeks ago, it strangely was coincident with a chrome upgrade.

👤 chipperyman573
Try disabling hardware acceleration