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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 732341
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Last visit > 30 days ago
Closed: Aug 2017
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Certain text renders wrong in the new YouTube design

Reported by gamezock...@gmail.com, Aug 1 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.78 Safari/537.36

Example URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE7JTf2_-ws

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Go on any YouTube video page while having the new design enabled
2. Watch, as some text looks like it is too bold and pixelated.

What is the expected behavior?
It should look like in the attached Firefox screenshot.

What went wrong?
The text looks wrong.

Going into the developer console and removing the CSS 'color' attribute does fix the issue, however.

Does it occur on multiple sites: Yes

Is it a problem with a plugin? No 

Did this work before? Yes Chrome 59

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 60.0.3112.78  Channel: stable
OS Version: Linux Mint MATE 17.3
Flash Version:
 
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Components: -Blink Blink>Fonts
Labels: Needs-Triage-M60

Comment 3 by e...@chromium.org, Aug 2 2017

Cc: derat@chromium.org
Dan, is this the same as the linux font rendering issue from last week?

Comment 4 by derat@chromium.org, Aug 2 2017

Cc: bunge...@chromium.org
Hmm, it's not immediately obvious to me that it would be. In the Chrome screenshot here, it looks like that text is black (instead of gray), unantialiased, unhinted, etc. The upshot of  issue 726631  just seemed to be that strong hinting was being ignored.

Maybe Ben has some ideas, though.
Looks like  issue 732341 .
Owner: egdaniel@chromium.org
Have you gone and manually enabled GPU rasterization in chrome? If so there is a good chance that it is the issue linked in #5. If so this is fixed in M61, but we decided not to role late into M60 since we don't enable GPU on linux.
Looking in chrome://flags, I actually had GPU rasterization enabled and disabling fixed this issue. I also use --ignore-gpu-blacklist to get hardware acceleration to work.
Mergedinto: 732341
Status: Duplicate (was: Unconfirmed)

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