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Chrome renders differently than Firefox
michal_bartak
Member Posts: 17 ✭
Hello
I'm trying to figure out why Chrome exposes rendering artifacts, while Firefox runinng on the same machine works perfectly.
I do use 2 computers: desktop with Windows 10 and notebook Thinkpad T490 with Intel gfx built-in running Fedora. The issue appear on the second one. On desktop computer both browsers works properly
I could understand all browsers affected due to weak gfx card in T490. But Firefox has no this problem. Maybe you could point me to some settings which improve the Chrome.
The issue manifests in two ways. The first is different in colors.
Here is the screenshot from Chrome
And the same from Firefox
You can clearly see difference. Chrome colours are washed out, to the extend that navigation cube is barelly visible.
The second isssue is, that when working with 3d objects, the objects flicker a lot. No black artifacts like mentioned in other posts. Objects just frequently disapear and appear again while scalling, rotating, moving etc.
I'm just deadly currious why such a difference between Chrome and Firefox while both running on the same machine.
thank you.
With regards.
I'm trying to figure out why Chrome exposes rendering artifacts, while Firefox runinng on the same machine works perfectly.
I do use 2 computers: desktop with Windows 10 and notebook Thinkpad T490 with Intel gfx built-in running Fedora. The issue appear on the second one. On desktop computer both browsers works properly
I could understand all browsers affected due to weak gfx card in T490. But Firefox has no this problem. Maybe you could point me to some settings which improve the Chrome.
The issue manifests in two ways. The first is different in colors.
Here is the screenshot from Chrome
And the same from Firefox
You can clearly see difference. Chrome colours are washed out, to the extend that navigation cube is barelly visible.
The second isssue is, that when working with 3d objects, the objects flicker a lot. No black artifacts like mentioned in other posts. Objects just frequently disapear and appear again while scalling, rotating, moving etc.
I'm just deadly currious why such a difference between Chrome and Firefox while both running on the same machine.
thank you.
With regards.
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Answers
Try https://cad.onshape.com/check and see if there are any issues reported.
Indeed the check unveils low performance of Chrome in comparison Firefox, and also confirms that Chrome uses Mesa driver. Not sure why those Mesa drivers perform so badly. Now I have to find out how to force chrome to use the native driver.
Chrome:
Firefox:
I found, that disabling Vulcan gfx backend helps with gfx artifacts as well as with the measured performance
On top of that, I found that having opened other tabs in Chrome, especially with heavy applications like google docs, Jira etc, impacts performance measurement significantly. For example, after disabling Vulcan I measured about 60mln triangles. After closing unnecessary tabs, it exceeded 100mln.
Worth to mention that measurements vary between attempts. Results oscillate between 80mln and 127mln for some reason. With or without software rendering - the results are the same.
Thank you for the support