So I yesterday text started acting really weird in Chrome. In some boxes any text enters is bolded, weirdly proportioned and a dagger appears after most words when typing for no reason whatsoever. Some sites are fine. Additionally all my icons on the taskbar refresh when I launch chrome. Any ideas? Images below.
Passwords on some sites look like this instead of the normal dots.
Text in FB comment boxes looks weird.
in Chrome:
In firefox:
Chrome:
Firefox:
Comment on TG.com in Chrome:
Same comment in Firefox:
Article from PCworld in chrome:
same text in firefox:
draigun
January 29, 2015, 10:04am
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What version of Chrome are you using?
It appears text anti-aliasing is not enabled when rendering in Chrome.
However, before we rush to that conclusion, try doing this:
Go to chrome://flags in the omnibox
If prompted with a warning, continue anyway
Ctrl+F for DirectWrite
If it's disabled, try enabling it
If it's enabled, then continue to the next steps below
If that doesn't solve the problem, try:
Repeating steps up until 3
Ctrl+F for LCD text antialiasing
Attempt to enable/disable it, re-launching Chrome
Also, the task bar icons refreshing indicates some kind of corrupt installation, so perhaps a fresh re-install might work?
None of that worked. Thanks for the suggestions though. I'm gonna try to reinstall.
I'm on version 40.0.2214.93 m btw
Update
A reinstall didn't help either.
What operating system are you using? I'm a bit surprised those internal flags didn't help, since they should do something about the font.
Another suggestion is to mess around with chrome's other internal flags, since these often involve the engine.
For example, try screwing around with things that pertain to display, GPU acceleration, software/hardware rendering, etc.
Windows 8.1
Yeah I played around with some stuff. Setting everything to defaults. Ect.
