Google Chrome is super buggy/broken after a recent upgrade

[SimonBrandner]

Describe the bug

Google Chrome is super buggy/broken after a recent upgrade

Steps To Reproduce

Use the config from here (the Tuxedo version) with an up to date nix channel

Expected behavior

Google Chrome to work flawlessly

Screenshots

Additional context

Possibly related: #238416, #241337

Metadata

this path will be fetched (0.01 MiB download, 0.05 MiB unpacked):
  /nix/store/91hwyc6c4r474zs56n9idbqj17dlcnna-stdenv-linux
copying path '/nix/store/91hwyc6c4r474zs56n9idbqj17dlcnna-stdenv-linux' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'...
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.1.37, NixOS, 23.05 (Stoat), 23.05.1532.aed4b19d312`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.13.3`
 - channels(root): `"nixos-23.05"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos`

[SimonBrandner]

Element Desktop also seems to suffer from the same symptoms

[SimonBrandner]

Discord and VS Code do seem to run though

[SimonBrandner]

Seems to be this: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1442633

[SimonBrandner]

Hah, found a fix/the cause, as described in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2098657#p2098657, do rm -rf .config/google-chrome/Default/GPUCache/

[imincik]

For the record, rm -rf .config/google-chrome/Default/GPUCache/ fixed my issues with browser as well.

[matousss]

For people for whom the solution above does not work

I had exactly the same problem but removing cache did not solve the issue :(. Today I discovered that disabling hardware acceleration fixes the UI for me.

Hope this will help someone.

[SimonBrandner]

It would also be good to note that this happens quite frequently to me after updates

[dbalmain]

For the record, rm -rf .config/google-chrome/Default/GPUCache/ fixed my issues with browser as well.

@imincik I'm not sure if you were in the same situation as me, but this didn't work for me because I'm using Chrome profiles. I had to delete all of the GPUCache folders.

find .config/google-chrome/ -type d -name GPUCache -exec rm -rf "{}" \;