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I am running Ubuntu 16.04

I started running whatsapp web for chrome today and the screen is constantly flickering.

It didn't happen earlier. Also it doesn't happen with Windows.

Why is it happening?

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  • What GPU do you have? Did you installed any drivers for it? Could be a problem of Chrome (and causes that), or of the GPU driver.
    – melchor629
    Aug 9, 2016 at 19:25
  • I have AMD and Xenial doesn't support it officially anymore
    – rancho
    Aug 9, 2016 at 19:29
  • Is possible that issue is caused by the GPU driver, because is not officially supported, and could have some strange incompatibilities with 16.04 and the Linux kernel.
    – melchor629
    Aug 9, 2016 at 19:35
  • I seriously doubt it as other things like flash videos, intensive video games are all working fine
    – rancho
    Aug 9, 2016 at 19:37
  • Then, I only could think that Chrome has something weird while rendering WhatsApp Web. Did you tried with Firefox? The flickering happen in Firefox too?
    – melchor629
    Aug 9, 2016 at 19:39

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This answer fixed it for me: https://askubuntu.com/a/768112/190333

I disabled hardware acceleration for my browser from Settings > Advance Settings > System > uncheck the hardware acceleration

This is something to do with hardware accelleration on Ubuntu. In my case I am running 17.10 and using an NVIDIA card.

I switched to a machine with the exact same card and driver, but running Debian 8, and the problem did not exist.

So while we have a fix, this indicates a problem unique to Ubuntu + Chrome, and not the video drivers specifically.

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