MacBook Pro flickering when scrolling Mac OS X Mavericks
Hello All,
I started noticing the flickering with Mountain Lion, specifically with the last patch before Mavericks. I upgraded to Mavericks and the problem has aggravated. The flickering is really bad in Safari and when using the genie effect and magnification turned on for the Dock. If I turn Safari to full screen, the problem doesn't disappear but it becomes less annoying. In Chrome however, the problem is noticeable but not as annoying as in Safari when in regular sized window. While in Finder, the problem does not happen at all. I tried to see if Maps had the problem but I couldn't see any difference whatsoever in full screen mode or regular sized window. I turned my screen capture software and when I went to review it, everything was perfect in the recording. No flickering whatsoever. So my guess is that it must be some sort of bad code or just needs a tweak. Hopefully the folks at Apple are taking notice of this and rolls out an update soon. If anyone has the same issue, please reply that way the folks at Apple can do something. Thanks.
MBP Mid 2012
8 GB RAM
OS X 10.9
2.9 GHz Intel Core i7
Hi Martillo,
I've exactly the same issues on my MBP Mid 2012 i5, and I've already open a similar thread in this forum.
Please, check it out: https://discussions.apple.com/message/23486904
Cheers,
Gabriele
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