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Ubuntu google chrome is showing strange behavior not updating screen since I downloaded docker

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Since I downloaded docker on my computer I get this strange behavior from chrome when I use it in another workspace. It's not updating the screen properly somehow and it's hard to explain so look it in the gif here. I have google-chrome-stable (86.0.4240.75-1) firefox seems fine. My ubuntu is 16.04. Also it's only if it's fullscreen.

UPDATE: updating my Ubuntu to 18.04 solved the problem. You can also downgrade your version of chrome to a working one as suggested bellow in the answers

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answered 2 Years ago enytidge · Accepted Answer

Yeah. This is bad. It's basically unusable after update to 86.0.4240.75-1 . Here's what mine looks like. Note that there are only two Chrome windows open-- the one in the bottom right is a visual artifact, as is the portion of my desktop surrounding it-- those are actually being displayed as the contents of the second Chrome windows, which you can see the border of in the middle. Unfortunately, I don't have time to wait for an update. I need it to work today, so I can fix other people's issues. Lovely.

Only way I know to triage until they fix it in a future update is to uninstall and install an older version.

I need it to work now, like right now, so downloaded closest stable version I could find, closed Chrome and uninstalled buggy version using Synaptic; closed Synaptic, and installed older version (84.xxx).

This worked to squash the bug, at risk of recently known security exploits. Yay! Hopefully they'll have a patch soon.

Oh, yeah-- this is where I got the old version:
https://www.slimjet.com/chrome/google-chrome-old-version.php

Specifically, this one:
https://www.slimjet.com/chrome/download-chrome.php?file=files%2F84.0.4147.135%2FChromeStandaloneSetup.exe

And this is where I found the reference to SlimJim:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11408325/download-older-versions-of-google-chrome-for-linux