I suppose if your screen is flickering in Chrome on your Macbook Pro, you can either check or uncheck the option depending on what you already have set up. This thread in the Google Forums says to do just the OPPOSITE and disable hardware acceleration. Near the bottom under the “System” headline – there is a checkbox next to “Use hardware acceleration when available.”

In the Advanced Settings window scroll down. Once the Settings window opens, scroll to the bottom and click on “Show Advanced Settings”. “Settings” is the second option from the bottom in the drop down window that opens. You can find this by clicking the three vertical dots a the far right edge of top input bar in Chrome (right after all of the icons for your Chrome extensions). I finally managed to eliminate the flicker – at least for now. How to Solve the Mystery of the Flickering Screen in Chrome on a MacBook Pro If I opened a video in that Facebook pop up type window.įlicker-city. Then I noticed that the screen on the MacBook Pro was actually flickering white when I scrolled web pages. It got so annoying that I downloaded the PDF to read in Preview.Īnd then I restarted my browser, of course. Well, I started reading in my browser – and as I scrolled, my the screen on my MacBook Pro would flicker with a black bar graph kind of thing. It opens in a new tab and you can either read it right there or download it to your computer. You know, when you click on a PDF in your Google Drive, for example. It caught my attention when I was reading PDF's online in the Chrome browser. I don't know when I first noticed it – but today it was worse than any other.

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