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Chrome 22 breaks things

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Re: Chrome 22 breaks things

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Post by paulhodge »

AgentConundrum wrote: post #7

I don't know if this is related, but I had an issue with flash yesterday which seems to correspond to the Chrome 22 release. I was playing a game which had never had a serious issue before, and I noticed that the timing of things was way, way off. At first, I thought that my system was just lagging - I had a server VM running, Firefox (my main) always has a ridiculous number of tabs open, and I was playing the game i…

I've also starting having some awful performance hitches involving Flash, which might be related. Sometimes if I watch a Youtube video, the whole browser window (not just the current tab) locks up for a few seconds. Just started happening a few days ago, on Chrome for Mac.

Re: Chrome 22 breaks things

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Post by dangrossman »

calvinlough wrote: post #48
dangrossman wrote: post #37

I've been seeing color abberations in text since my PC updated to Chrome 22. Most noticeable has been blue links showing up with a purple tint -- significantly different from the color showing in the Inspector. It's browser-wide, with extensions disabled -- I first noticed the change in link color on a Reddit comment thread, then saw it on Google Plus and my own website as well. http://i.imgur.com/Wjay2.png Has anyon…

I've noticed this as well, for blue links. It's really bugging me. Are you aware of a workaround? Edit: I'm on a Mac, 10.7.5, FWIW

I haven't found one. I tried switching color profiles on my display, removing extensions, upgrading to Chrome Canary -- colors are still off.

Re: Chrome 22 breaks things

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Post by dentldir »

We have a fairly sophisticated HTML5 based Cardiology viewer that completely fell apart when Chrome 22 shipped. It dynamically creates video objects and layers canvases on top for measurements. Worked perfect through version 21. In 22, playback is jittery, the browser stops responding, then eventually freezes where you can't even close the browser window. Other tabs are affected as well even though the process is supposed to be isolated (i.e. new tabs go completely black when trying to play video).

The issue isn't fixed in Canary. We are doing our best to isolate it and provide a bug report that demonstrates the issue outside of the production environment.

Re: Chrome 22 breaks things

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Post by cramforce »

mulya wrote: post #47
magicalist wrote: post #5

for position: fixed and changed stacking contexts, you're likely running into this: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/09/Stacking-Changes-Comin... Basically, the position: fixed on the parent of the span you're trying to put on top is now making the parent its own stacking context, which means that all children will be stacked relative to each other, not to the first absolutely or relatively positioned ancestor of t…

What does the spec say? is there a bug opened already? or are all the browsers wrong and Chrome is right?

The spec says Chrome is right (was recently changed). Chrome is not the only browser. iOS browsers, the Android browser and Chrome for Android have always used the new behavior. The reason for the change is faster scroll performance, particularly on mobile.

Re: Chrome 22 breaks things

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Post by femto113 »

cvalleskey wrote: post #45

While my server deals with the traffic, here are the important bits: - Floats don’t push block content down ( http://jsfiddle.net/cvalleskey/WD9pB/ ) - Z-index breaking when element is a child of a fixed parent ( http://jsfiddle.net/cvalleskey/9S3S8/ )

Adding "clear: left;" to the h1's style seems to yield the expected result, perhaps the problem isn't with the floated items but instead with the blocks? Is there some new rule about the default clear behavior?

Re: Chrome 22 breaks things

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Post by gbhn »

dangrossman wrote: post #52
calvinlough wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've noticed this as well, for blue links. It's really bugging me. Are you aware of a workaround? Edit: I'm on a Mac, 10.7.5, FWIW

I haven't found one. I tried switching color profiles on my display, removing extensions, upgrading to Chrome Canary -- colors are still off.

There's new ICC support in Chrome 22. Perhaps that is interacting poorly with some setting in your system?

Re: Chrome 22 breaks things

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Post by aboodman »

adestefan wrote: post #34
eckyptang wrote: post #8

Without wishing to piggy back on this thread I feel its a good time to point out that this is exactly why enterprises stick with IE. People are risk averse in businesses.

Enterprises love IE because it has Active Directory Group Policy hooks that allow you to customize and lock down the browser.

Chrome does, too: http://support.google.com/chromeos/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38...

Re: Chrome 22 breaks things

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Post by [deleted] »

ward wrote: post #15
JoelSutherland wrote: post #2

Additionally, Chrome 22 changed the behavior of -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased so that the weight of fonts looks much different than it used to when this was enabled. It makes icon fonts look especially bad. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152304

Well it is experimental for a reason. As quoted from the bug report > The webkit-font-smoothing css property is, contrary to the summary, still working. It is still respected, as no lcd font smoothing is being applied. However, the bug where it also affected the weight of the text as a side effect has been fixed. Though it's worth noting they are looking into whether the purpose (and thus the function) of this partic…

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Re: Chrome 22 breaks things

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Post by AgentConundrum »

krelian wrote: post #23
AgentConundrum wrote: post #7

I don't know if this is related, but I had an issue with flash yesterday which seems to correspond to the Chrome 22 release. I was playing a game which had never had a serious issue before, and I noticed that the timing of things was way, way off. At first, I thought that my system was just lagging - I had a server VM running, Firefox (my main) always has a ridiculous number of tabs open, and I was playing the game i…

I too saw plugin-container.exe grinding my disk to a halt yesterday. I'm considering going back to FF...

Your comment is confusing to me. plugin-container.exe is a Firefox process, not chrome.

Re: Chrome 22 breaks things

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Post by dangrossman »

gbhn wrote: post #56
dangrossman wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't found one. I tried switching color profiles on my display, removing extensions, upgrading to Chrome Canary -- colors are still off.

There's new ICC support in Chrome 22. Perhaps that is interacting poorly with some setting in your system?

I think that change is only supposed to apply to rendering of certain images, not text. Regardless, I went down that avenue as much as I could, switching color profiles (as I mentioned) in my display settings and rebooting to see if there'd be any change.

It shouldn't be the issue since ICC was already supported by other browsers, and they're not showing this new text color abnormality, just Chrome.

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