I have that problem, too.

Since I have all animations disabled, that flash created by Chrome restoring from minimized state is very annoying.

Does the issue still occur of you add --wm-window-animations-disabled to the command line flags?

--wm-window-animations-disabled does what the flag says. I guess this was the behavior from previous chrome verrsions.

Unable to reproduce the issue on Ubuntu 14.04 using chrome stable #58.0.3029.96 and latest dev #60.0.3088.3.

Attached a screen cast for reference.

Following are the steps followed to reproduce the issue.
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1. Minimized Chrome. 
2. Restored the Chrome browser window using alt+tab.
3. Observed no fade-in animation window as expected. 

harjoc@ - Could you please check this issue on latest stable #58.0.3029.96 by creating a new profile without any apps and extensions and please let us know if the issue still persist or not.

Thanks...!!

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Thanks for the 14.04 results. 

From the video I can see that the issue actually reproduces (the final window position is a solid white from frame 1 of the fade-in animation) but due to the reduced performance (frames-per-sec) in your ubuntu-vm, it's harder to notice. 

I captured a screenshot of a frame from your video that shows the solid white background and semi-transparent, chrome window contents on top (attached here). Notice that the window contents are in the process of being maximized, as part of the fade-in animation.

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Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "krajshree@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

 Issue 720012  has been merged into this issue.

Tested this issue on Ubuntu 14.04 using M58: 58.0.3029.110 and M57: 57.0.2968.0 , and not able to reproduce this issue.

Tested the same in Firefox browser too and observing the same behavior.

@harjoc: Could you please find the attached screen cast and please provide a expected behavior screen cast from you end, that will expedite our triaging process.

Thanks!!

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(really late reply, hope this bug is still being considered)

Just to reiterate: my and comment #2's issue reproduces when you fade in the chrome window back from minimized (which happens at second 13-14 in your video from comment #9). I can see that in your ubuntu VM the window animations are disabled, and the issue doesn't reproduce. I also just tried on a fresh ubuntu-16.04.2 live CD in KVM and animations are off.

It does reproduce on my machine with:
- official chrome 59.0.3071.115 
- ubuntu-16.04.2
- intel hd graphics 2000, default (intel_drv) driver
- classic "gnome-flashback compiz" that I selected at the ubuntu login screen (this is also called "gnome-session" IIUC)

You can see the behavior in the video from comment #5, at seconds 22-23. 

The expected behavior (mentioned in comment #6) is that the chrome window gradually fades in (window opacity increases from x% to 100%). 

The actual behavior is a solid white rectangle (100% opacity) from the first fade-in frame, and the actual browser contents expand to fill the white rectangle.

Maybe the actual behavior is what the developers indended ? I opened the issue because I expected either no animation or the typical gnome fade-in, like seen for example here at second 8:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs7QIMGQajI

+timbrown@ can you ptal at this?
The issue does not repro when using --wm-window-animations-disabled.  I think these animations are only supposed to be used on CrOs

This is the same as 695943, so merging into that one.