Chrome Is Glitching Badly On This And Other Sties

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For the record, I’m using Version 138.0.7204.49 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Linux Lite 7.2.

I’ve noticed that the latest update of Chrome is glitching badly on numerous websites, including ours.

On FB, the glitches involve big rectangular patches of solid colour, that particularly interfere with embedded YouTube videos.

Here on AR, the glitches consists of diagonal “darts” that once again accompany embedded YouTube videos.

Am I the only one experiencing this, or has this interfered with others here while browsing the site?

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I’ve not experienced those particular problems but I typically use safari.

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No, and not as much as the site actually being unavailable, for sure.

I use Brave, which is a fork of Chrome, and likely inherits or will inherit whatever bug this is, from the Chromium code base. There can be a delay until they can properly merge. Currently it’s based on Chrome 7103.13. With a little luck they will note this issue and either fix it or merge the code base after Chromium fixes it.

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I know how to fix that:

sudo apt install firefox

Just kidding; but maybe try another browser just to ensure Chrome is the problem. Maybe roll back to the previous version when you are sure the current version of Chrome is the problem.

I think you can get older copies here (the ones at the top are the newest I think).

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I gave up on Chrome a long time ago. TwoThree reasons:

  1. Chrome became quite the RAM and CPU hog
  2. Privacy
  3. Online ads

Google has crippled adblocker efficiency on Chrome, while Firefox still has strong support for them – I use uBlock Origin and DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials. As a result, I only rarely see ads online, even on YouTube. Sponsored segments in videos are harder to block, but I can just fast forward through them. Oh, and I run FF on three different Linuxes – Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 42, and Rasperry Pi OS. Even my little Raspberry Pi 5 works great for playing YT videos in the background. No glitches or anything.

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It’s ironic; years ago, it was Firefox that was the pig and Chrome was the answer. When that flipped, I went to Brave, which fixes your items 2 & 3 and I haven’t had any resource hogging issues, although, my style of browsing (I don’t keep tabs open forever until I have bazillions of them) seems not to encounter them (I also don’t own a machine with < 32G of RAM, lol). My wife on the other hand – comes from a research / journalism / trade writing background and researches the bejesus out of everything and has each project in a separate window with at least a hundred tabs in each, and then complains when some video player or JavaScript somewhere glitches and makes everything crawl.

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Currently, I have 61 tabs open. This is quite typical for me for just normal web browsing.

IMHO: Less than 8 GB is only usable for single purpose tasks. 8 GB is painful, 16 GB is on the low side, 32 GB is normally enough, 64 GB or more is comfortable.

My two main laptops both have 64 GB. The Raspberry Pi has 16 GB, which is enough for the tasks it can is set to do. My more than ten year old NAS box has 2 GB, recently upgraded from 1 GB, LOL.

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You shouldn’t be trying to use the internet in any Sty. There’s your problem. Pig shit in the crevices of whatever device you are using most probably.

You sound like a homosexual who gets surprised when he becomes sick. What does he expect when he plays in shit?

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My main work machine is a Mac Studio with 64G. The other is a Macbook Pro with 32G that’s a bit older. As it happens, most of my work is actually done via RDP on a virtual machine in the cloud that has 32G of RAM and 32 processors. The browsing I do there, is just a half dozen tabs at most. Really that amount of RAM is future-proofing as much as anything. In case I end up running LLMs locally or something.

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Weird. Some sites like Twitch won’t let me make an account using Opera, especially after I updated it. :confused: