It looks to me that anti-alias flag is getting flipped during reload and resize.

+ danakj@, enne@, do you have any idea?

That text rendering is very strange.  Even within what is likely the same text run, the same glyphs look different.

My first instinct is that I know that we snap to particular device scale factors at different resolutions.  Maybe there's something going on at the text rasterization level when particular scales are applied to the SkCanvas.

Could you try forcing on gpu rasterization in about:flags to see if that makes any difference one way or the other?

Disabling accelerated 2d canvas seems to fix this.  dianders@, can you try it on your elm?

I disabled:

> GPU rasterization Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
> Use GPU to rasterize web content. Requires impl-side painting. #enable-gpu-rasterization

...and I still see the problem.

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Then I disabled:

> Accelerated 2D canvas Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
> Enables the use of the GPU to perform 2d canvas rendering instead of using software rendering. #disable-accelerated-2d-canvas

...and the problem went away.  No more ugly text and no more "blinkies" when loading too.


NOTE: I'm on a kevin, not an elm.

Can you try forcing GPU rasterization *on* (there is a "Force enabled for all layers" choice in chrome://flags/#enable-gpu-rasterization), while leaving accelerated 2d canvas on, to compare?

@6: Oh, oops.  Sure, 1 sec.  So summary:

GPU rasterization default    / Accelerated 2D canvas enabled (default): problems
GPU rasterization disabled   / Accelerated 2D canvas enabled (default): problems
GPU rasterization default    / Accelerated 2D canvas disabled:          good
GPU rasterization force all  / Accelerated 2D canvas enabled (default): problems

Who is the owner of canvas 2d?

Any progress?

I don't have the proper device to test this, but I've recently fixed a similar bug on Linux.
Could you please check if:
https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/commit/ee1c820d0133c0536a55b5a0aaf808a97c471bde

fixes this?
(probably needs a day for canary to pick it up)