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Ventil1

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Registered: 2010-03-17

Posts: 143

Chromium and Brave issues after upgrade [SOLVED]

I been having issues with Chromium and Brave browser for like a month now.

Issue 1.:
Hardware acceleration for youtube videos stopped working.

Issue 2.:
My second issue is with with Google Spreadsheets
The fonts are not visible, some are white, see the attached screenshot:

https://i.ibb.co/VT7Pcy6/screenshot-202 … 32x496.png

Have anyone been experiencing similar issues?

I am not sure how to fix this.

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Last edited by Ventil1 (2023-11-07 12:40:36)

walkingstickfan

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From: USA

Registered: 2021-05-10

Posts: 116

Re: Chromium and Brave issues after upgrade [SOLVED]

No issues with YouTube videos and hardware acceleration enabled under Brave on either of my systems (ASUS AIO ET2322 and ASUS Zenbook UX303LA) under Arch Linux or Debian. May be something unique to your system. I don't use Chromium.

Last edited by walkingstickfan (2022-03-16 12:47:02)

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Ventil1

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Registered: 2010-03-17

Posts: 143

Re: Chromium and Brave issues after upgrade [SOLVED]

OK. Thank you for your reply.
I have that same issue on both computers. Totally different hardware specs.

Running:
Chromium - Version 99.0.4844.74 (Official Build) Arch Linux (64-bit) - I get that issue. Chromium versions a few issues back I get the same problem.
Brave  -Version 1.36.109 Chromium: 99.0.4844.51 (Official Build) (64-bit) works ok. But if I am running versions after that one I get the same issue.

walkingstickfan

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From: USA

Registered: 2021-05-10

Posts: 116

Re: Chromium and Brave issues after upgrade [SOLVED]

Have you tried disabling hardware acceleration to see if that helps?

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Ventil1

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Registered: 2010-03-17

Posts: 143

Re: Chromium and Brave issues after upgrade [SOLVED]

It worked! Spreadsheets look ok now again.

I had these flags enabled in chromium-flags.conf file:

--use-gl=desktop
--ignore-gpu-blocklist
--enable-gpu-rasterization
--enable-zero-copy
--enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder
--enable-accelerated-video-decode
--use-vulkan

Just deleted them all. Not sure which one did the trick.

Thank you walkingstickfan!

walkingstickfan

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From: USA

Registered: 2021-05-10

Posts: 116

Re: Chromium and Brave issues after upgrade [SOLVED]

You're welcome. I'm glad you've resolved your issue. You should update your original post and prepend the title with [SOLVED].

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