Chrome rendering color weird [closed]

Asked 27/9, 2016 at 10:46 Answered 13/10, 2016 at 14:49

macos google-chrome colors rendering artifacts

My Dell 2709w monitor recently started acting weird. On some page it renders different colors, where it shouldn't.

It only does this on the external monitor, not the macbook itself. And it is only in chrome. safari and firefox does not do this.

I am running macOS Sierra

Here is what it does:

Those light spots should not be there!

Forage answered 27/9, 2016 at 10:46 Comment(2)

Besides Canary, did anyone make any progress here? Most websites still look terrible on my macbook. Crazy that this is a known bug and nothing is done about it (also on Sierra, using a Macbook Air) – Dunsinane 4/10, 2016 at 7:18

Nothing here yet. Bummer that it also happens on your macbook screen. It is only my external screen that´s affected by this. – Forage 5/10, 2016 at 11:12

Reading the contents of the bug report here, a workaround that has worked for me is to set the "GPU rasterization" flag to Enabled in the Chrome configuration flags editor:

chrome://flags/#enable-gpu-rasterization

Thanks to Adam Lunn below for the link to the bug report.

Windcheater answered 13/10, 2016 at 14:49 Comment(3)

I got the same bug on Chrome since I'm running under Sierra. Your solution works for me! Thanks ;) – Underrate 14/10, 2016 at 16:23

This didn't work for me :( – Forage 18/10, 2016 at 8:35

Didn't work for me either:/ – Yasmin 20/10, 2016 at 22:53

I'm getting this issue too when connected to an external monitor. Are you using Sierra by any chance? It might be an issue with that.

Here's an example from me - this should be solid red background on an HTML page in Chrome 53:

This should be solid red, but it has artifacts

Callant answered 27/9, 2016 at 12:9 Comment(5)

Yes thats exactly what i am experiencing. and yes i am on Sierra, ive updated my question to reflect this. – Forage 27/9, 2016 at 13:10

Seems to be an existing issue with Sierra? bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=633805 – Callant 27/9, 2016 at 13:15

I downloaded Canary from here and the issue is gone completely :) – Callant 27/9, 2016 at 13:32

Just tried Canary, but the issue remains :( – Forage 28/9, 2016 at 7:8

I also tried Canary (as of Oct 13th 2016) and the rendering problems are gone. Let's hope they integrate the fix into Chrome stable soon, this is annoying! – Windcheater 13/10, 2016 at 14:43

I' getting same issue with Chrome 53 but also with Chrome Canary 56 and Atom.

Seems to happen on empty solid colors.

Fireproof answered 10/10, 2016 at 21:42 Comment(0)

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