Fwiw, I was testing in the following manner Zesty, fresh install unity8 deb based session, snap installed chrome (chrome-test) Chrome launches fine but in terms of usability I saw massive flickering with silo https://bileto.ubuntu.com/#/ticket/2383
Without that silo, there is still some out-of-order framerendering (for instance, a progress bar within a web page will take 2 steps fwd, 1 step back visually) also, you can "feel" this when typing as letters will temporarily disappear just after typing. Also, adding a tab causes chrome to crash ** Also affects: canonical-devices-system-image Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1510025 Title: Chrome/Chromium browser in Xmir (in DRI2 mode): Page contents never visible, all black, all white, or flickering To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1510025/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp