Google Investigating Issue With Blurry Fonts on new Chrome 69 (zdnet.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/09/06/1839242/google-investigating-issue-with-blurry-fonts-on-new-chrome-69
- Source link: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-investigating-issue-with-blurry-fonts-on-new-chrome-69/
So Chrome 69 makes you blind? (Score:4, Funny)
The jokes write themselves...
Blurry Fonts... (Score:2)
Maybe they need to put on their Google Glass so they can read the fonts clearer.
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They just started to use Cleartype and the fuzzy fonts.
Both cleartype and fuzzy fonts gives me a headache so I have to use uBlock to revert to the browser default when I run Firefox.
I bet you (Score:5, Insightful)
If these are Windows users they screwed with the Compatibility Mode options for DPI in order to make the window smaller or bigger. It looked fine until Google did something differently and now the Compatibility Mode options make it look blurry. Turns out using options designed for use on legacy applications only on modern applications introduces problems. Lots of Steam users have similar problems.
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Wrong. I use the standard DPI settings for the whole screen (1.5x on my 27" 4K screen), which only works with programs that are DPI-aware. It's true that I didn't notice the blurry fonts until I saw the headline, but I really just thought I was that tired (I've only had 69 for about a day). At least for me, it's fairly mild.
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If it looks significantly worse, it could also have nothing at all to do with the bug - Chrome is DPI aware and should never have that enabled. Especially since the bug report doesn't have any mention of anything but the system DPI setting.
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So you like the way I word it (No Giggity).
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The problem is there are three ways to tweak the DPI. Compatibility Mode, which can be set on a per-app basis. Display scaling, which is set via the Windows desktop and affects everything. And Advanced Scaling which Microsoft introduced with the Spring Creators Update, which I haven't figured out exactly how it's different from the regular Display Scaling.
Under the hood, there's also ClearType which runs on top of DPI scaling, and does [1]subpixel rendering [grc.com] (using the individual red, green, and blue subp
[1] https://www.grc.com/ctwhat.htm
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Looking at some zoomed in screenshots, I think they're scaling the subpixel rendering itself (which should never happen). There is no reason to have red or blue tint on anything but the outermost pixel, but looking at my screenshot close up I'm seeing two side-by-side bluish or reddish pixels.
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Even on Chrome 69 on my multi-DPI work setup I have to turn on the DPI scaling compatibility mode/override to not get huge dialog boxes and widgets. It's a bit frustrating to me that a currently supported, modern app would still have problems with that.
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Nope, I have a Windows VM that's essentially stock that I use for a couple applications. I had Chrome open in it earlier today, and noticed that the fonts were blurry and were giving me a headache after a few minutes of use. I thought maybe it was something with RDP messing it up, but after I read this, I logged in again and verified that the fuzzy fonts are only in Chrome. All other applications are fine.
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And most Windows apps. For most of our users on Windows 10, Windows apps have blurry text no matter what settings we try. That really sucks for developers that need to read a lot of text.
Re: I bet you (Score:2)
They don't?
Not new (Score:2)
Chrome has been having this problem for certain desktop users for a while now. There are workaround flags and whatnot. Just another chronic quality problem in Chrome that never gets fixed....
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True. I had to disable "Accelerated 2D canvas" in order to get the fuzziness to go away on mine on Chrome 68, which was working just fine before that.
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Text wrapping is a "solved" problem, too, but you're still doing it by hand for some reason.
While they're at it (Score:2)
..maybe they could also roll back all rounded rectangles they added in v69. Everything is so round it feels like I designed it in my basement.
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Chrome has a major UI re-design? Firefox is going to be pulling some late nights to catch up!
It's also has performance regressions (Score:2)
On my Lenovo G570 the latest chrome also has very high CPU usage on [1]slither.io game [slither.io] and the game turns into a slideshow in places with many snakes. Firefox 61 doesn't suffer from the this problem, despite the fact that its slower almost in any regard. But not this time.
[1] http://slither.io/
BSOD (Score:2)
After installing ALL pages I visit are pure black. No text or graphics.
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Fix (Win 7 Home): Uninstall Chrome, delete all browsing date. reinstall Chrome, be dazzled by the curviness.
Can someone summarize the linked article? (Score:4, Funny)
I upgraded and I can't read it.
See Jeff Probst ... (Score:2)
... about this.
I remember on Survivor®, back in the day, they had a "blurry tit," problem.
They fixed that by disallowing exposed tits.
Google should remove the tits from their fonts.
trivial subdomain hiding (Score:2)
So this "trivial subdomain hiding" thing... it's a crap idea right?
Here's my take as a Mac user (Score:2)
First of all, I really hate these thin fonts. They may look neat on hi-DPI displays but not everyone has one.
Secondly, the text on the left screen capture looks like it had its pixels hammered to the nearest pixel, which is the typical crappy-looking Microsoft anti-aliasing while the text on the right looks like normal anti-aliased text to me.
Whats the deal (Score:2)
Whats the deal with the new interface. Looks like we are back to rounded corners again.
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And what's the deal with decaf coffee? How do they get the caffeine out of there, and then where does it go?
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Why do they put caffeine in coffee and then take it back out?
And why if Chrome rendering fonts in the first place? That's a job for the operating system.
Re: Whats the deal (Score:2)
dichloromethe (or ethyl acetate) leeching.
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Score: 5, That's gold Jerry, GOLD!