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
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
I had a similar issue. For now I have gotten around it by disabling hardware acceleration. Hopefully the bug is fixed soon.
I also see this. When Chrome goes to fullscreen it either flickers or stops rendering new content. Things are fine only by exiting fullscreen. As a result fullscreen is basically not usable.
This seems to be an interaction between Chrome and 16.04, because I tried Chrome Dev (newer Chrome) and it still had the issue, and I just upgraded my machine from 16.04 to 18.04 and normal Chrome (same version that showed the issue on 16.04) works fine.
Turning off hardware acceleration fixes this for me. Ubuntu 16.04. Problem was only in full screen/maximized and I would get a normal screen refresh if my mouse passed over the title bar. If you moved it quickly back and forth over the title bar, even video could look somewhat normal.
Hopefully a fix comes soon... totally hijacked my workflow.