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Wow, Chrome is disgusting!

13 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/wow-chrome-is-disgusting.182214/

ithehappy
ithehappy Original post #1
Mar 21, 2014 at 8:18 AM
Well I was surfing net and thought lets connect the laptop to the TV and I did, was surfing with Chrome, like any kids do :lol: but I was shocked! I mean look at the fonts. It looked like someone painted quality mud on the webpages! So fcuking blurry! Wha the hell :-o Then just to check used IE (11), and even installed Mozilla, and they all look fine and sharp. I mean the TV is just 1080p, so why fonts look so bad in Chrome? On my WXGA laptop screen it looks okay? PPI a factor? If so it should be applied for Mozilla and IE too.
What a shame!

Chrome:
*i.imgur.com/ZaFXtZP.jpg

IE:
*i.imgur.com/P4wc9UG.jpg

Mozilla:
*i.imgur.com/vfvy9Yu.jpg
Gollum
Gollum #2
Mar 21, 2014 at 9:51 AM
Well I was surfing net and thought lets connect the laptop to the TV and I did, was surfing with Chrome, like any kids do :lol: but I was shocked! I mean look at the fonts. It looked like someone painted quality mud on the webpages! So fcuking blurry! Wha the hell :-o Then just to check used IE (11), and even installed Mozilla, and they all look fine and sharp. I mean the TV is just 1080p, so why fonts look so bad in Chrome? On my WXGA laptop screen it looks okay? PPI a factor? If so it should be applied for Mozilla and IE too.
What a shame!

Chrome:
*i.imgur.com/ZaFXtZP.jpg

IE:
*i.imgur.com/P4wc9UG.jpg

Mozilla:
*i.imgur.com/vfvy9Yu.jpg
I don't know what you did but chrome works fine for me. HD 3D 2D anyD
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AbhMkh #3
Mar 21, 2014 at 10:25 AM
Well I was surfing net and thought lets connect the laptop to the TV and I did, was surfing with Chrome, like any kids do :lol: but I was shocked! I mean look at the fonts. It looked like someone painted quality mud on the webpages! So fcuking blurry! Wha the hell :-o Then just to check used IE (11), and even installed Mozilla, and they all look fine and sharp. I mean the TV is just 1080p, so why fonts look so bad in Chrome? On my WXGA laptop screen it looks okay? PPI a factor? If so it should be applied for Mozilla and IE too.
What a shame!

Chrome:
*i.imgur.com/ZaFXtZP.jpg

IE:
*i.imgur.com/P4wc9UG.jpg

Mozilla:
*i.imgur.com/vfvy9Yu.jpg

Putting "Miracast" to use are we now :)
SaiyanGoku
Mar 22, 2014 at 12:25 AM
working fine at my end. try disabling hardware acceleration from chrome's settings.
ithehappy
Mar 22, 2014 at 4:28 AM
Disable H/W acceleration? Hmm, will try it. It's my secondary browser now anyway :|
xSF
xSF #8
Apr 13, 2014 at 10:00 PM
Just type about:flags in chrome adress bar, and then disable/enable HiDPI support..
gameranand
Apr 14, 2014 at 7:32 AM
Working fine for me. No issues like yours.
tkin
tkin #10
Apr 14, 2014 at 9:06 AM
Working fine here.
xSF
xSF #11
Apr 14, 2014 at 10:17 AM
The reason is because, @OP is using windows DPI scaling. Chrome does not respond well to windows DPI scaling. Either turn it off, or change the HiDPI scaling options in about:flags
anirbandd
anirbandd #12
Apr 14, 2014 at 5:54 PM
Just type about:flags in chrome adress bar, and then disable/enable HiDPI support..

thats a pretty bada$$ thing!!

nice! thanks :)

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@OP: its working fine here too. :p
xSF
xSF #13
Apr 14, 2014 at 8:29 PM
thats a pretty bada$$ thing!!

nice! thanks :)

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@OP: its working fine here too. :p

Yea, I had to figure that out when I used Windows on a virtual machine on a MacbookPro retina display, when I used custom DPI scaling.