Overview#
Today I discovered my Google Chrome was automatically updated from version 37 to version 38… don’t ask me automatically, I don’t think I decided for this.
Anyway, after this update all websites I visited was wrong scaled with a strange blurred effect on some part of the text.
For example, in GMail, all was bigger than usual, like when you select 125% scaling and when I try to write into the Hangout window, the text was blurred and impossible to read.
I spent half of my day just trying to fix this problem and, because I’ve already have it in a previous version I was using in Linux, I already know it was a Chrome problem.
The Problem#
To check the real problem I just checked on a page I’ve created some years ago (http://myip.mornati.net), to get the screen resolution from the browser.
NOTE: On my laptop I’ve a 1920x1080 screen.
Chrome 38
What??? 1536x864 But… WHY??
Browser Comparison#
I then tested some other browsers (some = the browsers you can imagine)
IE (yes IE too)
Ok… it’s a strange number… but it’s IE. Anyway, the screen resolution is more similar to the normal one I had before.
Firefox
Firefox has the same problem as Chrome… but, at least, all is correctly displayed at this resolution. You don’t have blur effect which makes it impossible to use it.
The Fix#
I made a test to the Chrome’s beta version; just because I didn’t want to go back to the previous one if I cannot control the automatic update.
Chrome 39
Yes… that is good and it is the value I had with the previous version.
I spent a day to get back to a correct screen resolution in my browser and to prevent blur effect to be able to use it!!
Why anytime Google releases a new Chrome’s stable version there’s something that wasn’t correctly tested?
If you want to fix this problem… just change the chrome version without lose your time.