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philc

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Registered: 2017-03-24

Posts: 21

Chromium glitches

Since the last Trinity update, the BBC home news page is not displaying properly, with breakup and distorted bands of colour. Other pages seem better but not perfect.

Pages on other websites are better, but everything seems a little eccentric, with odd highlighting on web forms and text entry on Google.

Is anyone else experiencing problems?

Rademes

Member

From: Latvia

Registered: 2015-12-13

Posts: 637

Re: Chromium glitches

Q4OS Team does not develop and support Google Chrome and Chromium browsers. They are proprietary browsers, and are available in Q4OS Linux "As is". Try Firefox from Q4OS Software Centre. I have no problems with Firefox on three my notebooks.
BBC News page in Firefox is displayed correctly: https://i.postimg.cc/CxDctkZ2/BBC-Firefox.png

Last edited by Rademes (2023-10-31 19:02)

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hchiper

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2020-07-28

Posts: 519

Re: Chromium glitches

You could try to empty the browser cache (maybe there is a corrupted .css style file that is reused to display those pages) and reload.
If you are using a desktop with an external screen, and if you have a bad display for everything, check the video cable / connectors.
Do you have screenshots of those pages?

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Senas Komunistas

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From: Lithuania

Registered: 2016-04-17

Posts: 52

Re: Chromium glitches

Q4OS Team does not develop and support Google Chrome and Chromium browsers. They are proprietary browsers

Chromium is a open source browser.

Last edited by Senas Komunistas (2023-11-01 13:15)

philc

Member

Registered: 2017-03-24

Posts: 21

Re: Chromium glitches

Thanks all. Hchiper, I tried clearing the cache with no improvement. I use a Toshiba Equium laptop with AMD Turion X2 64 processor and no external screen.

A screenshot is attached.

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philc

Member

Registered: 2017-03-24

Posts: 21

Re: Chromium glitches

I used to like Firefox, but I find currently that It makes my system crash. I have no other such problems.

Could someone please advise me the best procedure in the Trinity desktop for a complete uninstall and clean reinstall of Chromium?

Thanks.

q4osteam

Q4OS Team

Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 4,501

Website

Re: Chromium glitches

@philc
We are not able to reproduce the issue. Chromium displays web content fine, including bbc.com and others. We would recommend you to perform a simple test before taking more actions. Just create new user, log into the fresh clean session, check Chromium with this new account and post back.

philc

Member

Registered: 2017-03-24

Posts: 21

Re: Chromium glitches

Thanks. I created a whole new Google profile (different email & p/w) but it has not made much difference. BBC is still weird in various ways.
Whether I use this or the old profile, in the account setting it has me as Person 1, not signed in, despite numerous signings in.
However, despite this, the original profile has all my settings, passwords for websites, access to my settings in YouTube etc.
After "signing in", Chromium crashes.
Google is OK for me on other devices.
Should I totally shed Chromium and start again?
One other thing is that after all the mucking about, the time reading in the desktop bottom right often goes fuzzy and indistinct, but comes back OK after a reboot.
All very strange and disconcerting.

q4osteam

Q4OS Team

Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 4,501

Website

Re: Chromium glitches

I created a whole new Google profile..

This is not what we suggested. You should create new user account on your Q4OS system, and follow up the recommendation above.

philc

Member

Registered: 2017-03-24

Posts: 21

Re: Chromium glitches

Hi, sorry, yes, I did this and the problems with Chromium were present in the session with the new user account, created via Control Centre/System Administration/Users and groups.

q4osteam

Q4OS Team

Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 4,501

Website

Re: Chromium glitches

... problems with Chromium were present in the session with the new user account...

Now it's clear, a culprit is not in the Chromium cache or some kind of conflict with user configuration. Moreover it looks like a hardware dependent issue as we are not able to reproduce it on our hardware, likely graphic hardware related. We can only recommend to check Debian related resources and help, as Q4OS chromium comes from Debian repositories as is. What works on plain Debian should work on Q4OS as well.

philc

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Registered: 2017-03-24

Posts: 21

Re: Chromium glitches

OK, thank you.

philc

Member

Registered: 2017-03-24

Posts: 21

Re: Chromium glitches

Cured by seeking Debian help on web as suggested and unchecked "use hardware acceleration when available" via Settings/System in Chromium.