Ubuntu – Google Chrome with strange behavior

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I'm former Chromium-browser user, but after not upgrading the PPA for 2 months, I switched to Google Chrome browser yesterday. Everything is okay, except some strange behavior on some pages and crashing after loading "chrome://" configuration pages.
The best known website with strange behavior is youtube, there is a picture what I see:
Youtube
When I open user menu in top right corner, it crashes that way and even after closing the menu, some parts of menu stay display.

You may say it's Youtube problem, no, I have this problem at least on three other websites, here it is on Imgur:
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The problem isn't for the whole side, sometimes it happens from the middle of the screen.

The interesting part is that it happens everytime in the same distance from the right border. When I check the DOM elements with the Developer tool, the overlay which shows element's position is rendered how it should be. What is more, if there is anchor after the crashed area, it works after clicking on it. Selecting text in crashed page is impossible.

I hope there is enough information to give me an advice, thanks in advance. 🙂

EDIT:

Here is what the browser posted in "chrome://gpu-internals/":

Graphics Feature Status
Canvas: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
Compositing: Hardware accelerated
3D CSS: Hardware accelerated
CSS Animation: Software animated.
WebGL: Hardware accelerated
WebGL multisampling: Hardware accelerated
Problems Detected
Accelerated CSS animation has been disabled at the command line.
Accelerated 2d canvas is unstable in Linux at the moment.

Ubuntu 12.04 |
Gnome-shell 3.4.1 |
ATI Radeon 4550 |
Screen resolution 1024*768 |
Chrome version 20.0.1132.57 (Official Build 145807)

Best Answer

It might be that the newer version of Chrome simply does not like your GPU. I have had issues similar to yours and have solved them by turning off the compositing and 3d acceleration features.

Type chrome://flags into the address bar and set the following items:

GPU compositing on all pages: Disabled (Three options in a drop-down.)

Disable accelerated 2D canvas: Enable (Click the link that says 'Enable', the box will turn white.)

Disable accelerated CSS animations: Enable (Like above, the item will turn white.)

Then click the button that shows up at the bottom of the page Relaunch now to restart chrome and test if this worked.

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