Does anyone know what is the cure for this please?
The problem to be endemic and recognised, but the only cure around (clear caches??) involves denying that the problem actually exists!
All cures I have found start out "open a browser..... " "go to preferences......." "click on the three dots on the top right of the screen.........." while nothing can be seen on the screen because it is white!!!!
Surely there is a solution somewhere,( besides trying to re-install, - which doesn't work)?
All cures I have found start out "open a browser..... " "go to preferences......." "click on the three dots on the top right of the screen.........." while nothing can be seen on the screen because it is white!!!!
Thanks for that but your reply didn't actually contain the original reply,, - only the 3 dots onto which I couldn't click
There was recently discussion of this issue in comp.sys.mac.misc (no solution
there though) by someone running an extremely unsupported configuration (one
of the dosdude1 patches on a 2009 MacBook Pro, restored from a Time Machine backup of a later model machine).
If your configuration is similar, my first guess would be that the issue is with GPU acceleration, which it looks like you can disable with the following
instructions: <https://www.technipages.com/google-chrome-enable-disable-hardware-acceleration-mode>
(see option 3 for how to do it without access to the Chrome shell). If it works, I can't imagine the browsing experience would be any good, but it might
just let you have enough access to apply some of the other settings changes you were looking at. You could also search around to see if there are other "defaults write"-based implementations of the other fixes you saw online.
But, before doing that, assuming you are willing to part with Chrome data that
might be hanging around on your disk from a previous install (much of which I
assume is already backed up to Google if you were previously logged into a Google account), you could try nuking the application with AppCleaner <https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/>, which should remove any caches, config
files, etc. My understanding is that this program is actually highly regarded
in the community, as compared to many of the other Mac-focused "cleaning" apps. I doubt whether this will work if both Brave an Chromium are also having
the issue though (assuming those are fresh installs).
Finally, if you are satisfied with using Chromium, after you have nuked its app data with AppCleaner or similar/manually, it seems they still have older builds available: <https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium/>I am desperate for a solution as I had 90 tabs open in two identities in Chrome which I was working on and all my logins to large numbers of sites which were unsaved because I thought I should always be able to access them through Chrome if needed.
You could try hopping around in version numbers to find the latest one that works (removing with AppCleaner after each attempt), but keep in mind that it
is considered very bad from a security perspective to run an out-of-date browser.
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