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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 732341
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Closed: Aug 2017
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OS: Linux
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Broken font rendering

Reported by rea...@gmail.com, Aug 10 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.90 Safari/537.36

Example URL:
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/README.html

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Go to https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/README.html

What is the expected behavior?
Fonts should render with anti-aliasing and hinting.

What went wrong?
Fonts seem non anti-aliases and unhinted.

Does it occur on multiple sites: No

Is it a problem with a plugin? No 

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 60.0.3112.90  Channel: stable
OS Version: Gentoo AMD64
Flash Version: 

Attached are two screenshots. The first is how the fonts look in Chrome (wrong rendering). The second is how they look in Firefox 55.0 (correct rendering.)
 
chrome_fonts_c.png
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Cc: susanjuniab@chromium.org
Components: Blink>Fonts
Labels: Needs-Triage-M60 Needs-Feedback
realnc@ thanks for the issue

Unable to reproduce the issue on Ubuntu 14.04, Windows 7 and Mac OS 10.12.6 using latest Stable 60.0.3112.90 and canary 62.0.3182 with the below steps.

1. Launched Chrome and opened the given link.
2. Web page is opened as expected and no issues are observed.

Please find the attached screen shot and confirm if anything is missed here.
Request you please retry the issue on new profile without any extensions/flags and update the thread if the issue still exists.

Thanks..
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Comment 2 by rea...@gmail.com, Aug 13 2017

New profile with no extensions still shows the issue.

However, I discovered that if I just go that URL and don't do anything, all looks file. As soon as I move the mouse over the text, then the font changes to "ugly". This also happens if I use ctrl+mwheel to change page zoom, or if I press F5. Then all the text on the whole page becomes ugly.

If I scroll up/down, then random parts of the text become ugly, other parts stay fine.

If I press Ctrl+F5, the text becomes good again.

So basically, all is fine until I do anything on that page.
Project Member

Comment 3 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Aug 13 2017

Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "susanjuniab@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

Comment 4 by rea...@gmail.com, Aug 13 2017

Oh, and another thing that might be relevant:

If I close the tab and then go to that URL again in a new tab, the font is ugly. However, if I close the tab, then go to the "Clear Browsing Data" dialog, select "Cached images and files" and click "clear browsing data", and then go to the URL again, the font is fine.
Labels: Needs-Bisect
realnc@ Thank you for the feedback.

Retried the issue again on the latest Canary 62.0.3185 and latest stable 60.0.3112.90 on Windows 7,Ubuntu 14.04 and Mac OS 10.12.6.

Unable to reproduce the issue by following the below steps.
1. Clicked on the link given.
2. Moved the mouse over the text and can see no ugly font.
3. Tried to zoom-in/zoom-out the page using ctrl+mousewheel and no issue are observed.
4. Pressed F5 and no ugly font is observed on the page.

Please find the attached screen cast and let me know if anything missing from my end.

Thanks..
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Labels: -Needs-Bisect Needs-Feedback
Related issue:  https://crbug.com/750494 

Comment 8 by rea...@gmail.com, Aug 15 2017

Thanks for that. Indeed it seems to be the same issue.

I disabled "GPU rasterization" in chrome://flags and the problem went away. Fonts look fine now!

However, scrolling is now a lot slower in a lot of pages.

Comment 9 by rea...@gmail.com, Aug 15 2017

Btw, I'm on an nvidia GTX 980 Ti, with driver version 384.59.
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Comment 10 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Aug 15 2017

Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "susanjuniab@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

Comment 11 by e...@chromium.org, Aug 16 2017

Cc: derat@chromium.org drott@chromium.org

Comment 12 by derat@chromium.org, Aug 17 2017

Mergedinto: 732341
Status: Duplicate (was: Unconfirmed)

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