Glitchy Chrome on Mac OS

[Guest spamgrabs]

For a while Emby in Chrome has been all... um.. glitchy. It works just fine for the most part. It plays songs and video just fine. But the interface flickers, as does the browser itself. The toolbars, the omni bar, etc... I've linked below to a video I uploaded to Youtube showing Chrome, then Firefox on the same computer. Firefox doesn't have the same issue. And Chrome on Windows 10 doesn't have the issue.

 

Anyone see this before? I don't have many plugins going.

 

https://youtu.be/Y3ixxiAouLA

[Luke 38551]

Hi there, is Chrome up to date? Can you please describe the issues? Thanks.

[Guest spamgrabs]

It's "Nearly up to date" Just got to restart. It's on version 81.0.4044.113. It's been doing this for months. 

I don't know how else to describe it short of the Youtube video I linked to. Parts of the page flicker as I hover over things. Even the browser's UI flickers like my bookmark bar and the omni bar. Fast, hyper flickering. Sometimes it does it when I'm not even focused on the window. It happens when I'm using 2 monitors or 1 on my MBP. 

Edited April 24, 2020 by spamgrabs

[Luke 38551]

Ok, i haven't seen this before but I'll do some additional testing on MacOS and try to chase it down. Thanks for reporting.

[sentience 1]

That's a fascinating video. Looks like either flaky video hardware or some problematic Chrome extension interacting with Emby.

 

I assume you see none of these symptoms in other websites in Chrome, nor in other macOS applications than Chrome.

 

Have you tried reproducing the issue in Safari or Firefox?

[Guest spamgrabs]

That's a fascinating video. Looks like either flaky video hardware or some problematic Chrome extension interacting with Emby.

 

I assume you see none of these symptoms in other websites in Chrome, nor in other macOS applications than Chrome.

 

Have you tried reproducing the issue in Safari or Firefox?

 

@sentience  It works fine in Firefox, and I tested it in Safari. It works alright there too. No problems I've seen in either on Mac OS. And this only happens, from what I've noticed, on Emby in Chrome. No other programs, nor websites. I do have two monitors usually, and did when I recorded that video. I'll see if it does it with only the laptop's monitor. 

 

I've attached a list of extensions in Chrome. Most of them are turned off. I'll try turning them all off and see if that helps any, and report back.

 

[Guest spamgrabs]

Okay some new details on this odd occurrence. I'm using two windows of Chrome. One for my work Google account, and the other for my personal one.

 

I turned off all extensions and it's still happening. BUT I noticed if Emby is the only tab open in my personal Chrome, then it doesn't do it. If another site is open, and if it appears to be working/loading/doing something, THEN Emby gets all twitchy. At least it sometimes appears to do it mainly when another site is loading or something. It's not constant though.

I tried running a Youtube video in my work Chrome window, and it doesn't seem to affect it. But if I've got a Youtube video running in a tab on my personal Chrome (where Emby is running), then Emby gets twitchy. That's one way to make it happen on my laptop. 

Maybe that will help. My laptop's a 2014 version MBP with 16GB of RAM. I can't imagine I'm running out of memory. NVIDIA GeForce GT 750m 2 GB graphics card. 

[Luke 38551]

Thanks for the info. I'll try that scenario and see if I can reproduce.