How awesome is this. Let me guess: Technically this is not a regression, i.e. the white flashing existed before - but now it has become visible as we changed the background color. Yay!

We'll treat this as a regression for UX reasons.

Issue 612082 has been merged into this issue.

I can reproduce this on yesterday evening's Dev release 52.0.2739.0

Still reproducible on yesterday evening's Dev release 52.0.2739.3 (which is less than 24h fresher).

Woo! I can't reproduce this in May's custom APK anymore!

https://codereview.chromium.org/1993253002/

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/4648bfe49691cfcedcb719c349c1c524aac7bd3b

commit 4648bfe49691cfcedcb719c349c1c524aac7bd3b
Author: maybelle <maybelle@chromium.org>
Date: Thu May 19 18:06:20 2016

Fix omnibox flashing on phones when switching between foreground/background NTPs

BUG= 612114 

Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/1993253002
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#394812}

[modify] https://crrev.com/4648bfe49691cfcedcb719c349c1c524aac7bd3b/chrome/android/java/src/org/chromium/chrome/browser/compositor/layouts/LayoutManagerDocument.java
[modify] https://crrev.com/4648bfe49691cfcedcb719c349c1c524aac7bd3b/chrome/android/java/src/org/chromium/chrome/browser/util/ColorUtils.java

Should we mark this regression bug as fixed and file a separate one for the general improvements to fix this for good?

Issue 614673 has been merged into this issue.

Marking as fixed and filed Issue 614690 to track the remaining omnibox flashing issues (which are also technically not a regression cause by the MD changes, since I can reproduce those on stable)

Issue 614673 has been merged into this issue.

Issue 614690 has been merged into this issue.