Chrome running slow in fullscreen mode (not Flash related)
Got a new Intel NUC running Ubuntu 14.04. Chrome shows dramatically degraded performance when I fullscreen any tab by pressing F11. It happens on YouTube and Netflix, but it's also true even on simple webpages like Wikipedia. I can tell just by scrolling up and down. The apparent framerate drops from at least 20fps to about 2fps. Netflix plays videos fine even when the window is maximized, and fullscreen is only slightly larger than that.
Firefox also does not show this problem.
I assume what's happening is that Chrome is changing the display settings to something not well supported by my graphics hardware. Here's the output from sudo lshw -class display
. Any known fixes? Thanks.
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 09
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915_bpo latency=0
resources: irq:47 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:f000(size=64)
First of all, go to the url chrome://gpu.
It should look something like this:
If so, go to the url chrome://flags.
- Go to Override software rendering list and click enable.
- Go to Enable experimental canvas features and click enable.
Then, press CTRL + F and search for the word raster.
- Change Enable display list 2D canvas to Enabled.
- Change Enable GPU rasterization to Force Enabled for all layers.
- Change Enable zero-copy rasterizer to Enabled.
When you are done, click Reload and go to the URL chrome://gpu and it should look like this:
Hopefully, this should make a difference.
Partially adapted from this article on Webupd8.