Content Not Displaying Correctly In Chrome Based Browsers

markdj

Hi all.

I have a weird issue with Chromium based browsers in that they don't always display content properly, and I'm unable to enter text into entry fields

As you can see in the attached image, the Wordpress dashboard login screen is displaying text correctly in Firefox (top left window) but in the others, which are Chrome, Ungoogled-Chrome and Brave, they are not and I'm unable to enter text into the fields

Anyone got any ideas as to what is causing this?

I'm running up to date KDE Plasma spin

Cheers

Harvey

I did not notice it in your addon section of the bar, but just in case. If you are using noscript, there was an update today that broke it entirely on chromium based browsers. Noscript stopped obeying custom rules and was blocking pretty much everything such as external fonts, javascript etc resulting in incomplete loading of pages very similar to your examples.

If you are using it, you will have to disable the extension entirely, trying to disable it within the extension does not work.

markdj

Firefox is my primary browser so there's no addons installed on the chrome ones. I only use Chrome for checking that site pages are displaying correctly. It's a weird one.

brent

this is my ungoogled. it's fine. decentraleyes and ublock are my only extensions. if you can't write in fields its because in chrome settings you have javascript disabled somehow. it happens.
the following info is just like my opinion, man.

markdj

Just bumping this in case anyone has any fresh insight into this as I've never resolved it.

I've searched high and low on the interwebs, trying all sorts of combinations with the gpu & javascript settings in chrome:settings but to no avail.

Interestingly this issue isn't just confined to Solus but if I install any Ubuntu based distro with any DE then I get the same problem.

When I run a live USB then Chrome browsers run OK, as well as on clean installs, so I'm guessing that it's something else I've installed on my system that is causing this but I can't for the life of me figure out what it is.

My machine is an AMD Ryzen 4800H with Renoir graphics.

markdj

I have finally found out what has caused this issue!!

I have a font folder located in /Home/.local/share and in a couple of the typeface folders there were .ttf files and also a .dfont file. It turns out that Linux is a bit funny when it comes .dfont files as they are a MacOS thing.

After deleting the .dfont files that fixed the display issues in Chromium browsers.

It has taken me a few hours of doing a clean install and then going through my set up routine and then a process of elimination.

This has been annoying me for so long, so to fix it is quite a relief!

brent

markdj wow that is a strange one. I've had those issues before (not chrome specific either) that I wrote off as an extension...so solus sees and understands the .dfont but is unable to render it? either way I might do a search for dfont when I get home, for kicks. congrats on solving.

edit: "Dfont fonts on Windows or Linux systems----No other operating system except OS X supports dfont fonts. Windows or Linux systems cannot display dfont fonts. When you copy a dfont file to a Windows or Unix machine, it retains it file size whereas regular Mac TrueType fonts become 0K."
https://www.prepressure.com/fonts/basics/dfont makes sense to me