Ubuntu – How to fix horizontal lines on YouTube video on Google Chrome (No issue on Firefox)

20.04google-chromeyoutube

So i'm facing this strange issue when watching YouTube videos on Google Chrome. There appear some horizontal lines when you hover the cursor on video as shown in screenshot. I have checked on Firefox but there is no such issue there. Any way to solve this?

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Best Answer

If you are using 20.04, Disabling the 'Use hardware acceleration when available' option works for me. Open a new tab and type the following chrome://settings/?search=hardware

Turn-off the option Use hardware acceleration when available and relaunch the browser. Hope this helps