Wierd flickering with latest chromium

Question

I've been having some wierd flickering with the latest chromium.
I get black portions of the screen (including outside the chromium window). I ocasionally get a black i3-statusbar when scrolling with chromium, and the I see a lot of wierd artifacts on the entire screen.
For example, a moment ago, while scrolling a wikipedia article, half of a duckduckgo logo appeared for a moment, though ddg was open on a different tab.
Sometimes when scrolling, I'll see the top of the page overlayed with the current portion (it's not a lagged redraw, since both the current portion and the top portion get overlayed).
Here's another example.
Notice how the tab-bar is black, and the i3-statusbar (at the bottom) is black too.
Screenshots are very hard to capture because it's usually just a couple of frames and at unpredictable intervals.
Does anyone else have this issue? I'm suspecting of aura, chromium's new toolkit, but would like to know if I'm the only one.

Answer 1

struppi wrote:
I also have exactly the same problem.
Actually I have no access to the affected computer, but when you start chromium from the terminal you get a message. I did search yesterday after it, but I didn't find a solution.
It's not an urgent problem, since Firefox works as usual, but it's a really strange bug.
I've always prefered firefox too anyway. But when I ocasionally use chromium, it screws up the entire desktop, and that sucks.
corner578 wrote:
You can try
/etc/chromium/default
CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--ignore-gpu-blacklist"
It would seem that this fixes it (or the random glitches have simply not shown up simply by coincidence). Are Intel cards blacklisted and this ignores that blacklist?