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When visiting ubuntu.com or askubuntu.com, Google Chrome displays blank spaces instead of most of the expected text of the web site. The sites look like this:

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I am using Google Chrome 20.0.1132.47 beta on Fedora 17 x86_64 under KDE.

So far I have tried:

  • Removed ~/.cache/google-chrome and restarted Chrome - No change.
  • Removed ~/.config/google-chrome and restarted Chrome - No change.
  • Removed both of the above and restarted Chrome - No change.
  • Logged in as a different user - Works.

when I login as a different user, Chrome displays the sites properly. In addition, when I remove the ~/.config/google-chrome and ~/.cache/google-chrome directories and restart Chrome to generate a new configuration, the problem persists. These lead me to believe that the trouble has something to do with my user account, though exactly what is unclear.

Where else should I look for the source of this problem?

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  • After being updated to 21.0.1180.41 the problem persists.
    – Michael Hampton
    Commented Jul 14, 2012 at 3:54

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I faced this issue on Ubuntu 22.04.

Disabling hardware acceleration from chrome settings https://chrome://settings/system solved the issue.

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You may want to verify your font settings in your chrome profile (Settings > Advanced > Web Content). I had run into a similar issue in the past that was solved with a change to my font settings.

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I had an apparently corrupt copy of the Ubuntu fonts in my ~/.fonts directory. After removing them, I can view all of these sites normally again.

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Disabling the hardware acceleration helped, but seems like a workaround rather than a solution. In case you don't know how to reach it in 2023:
Open this URL in your Chrome Browser:
chrome://settings/?search=hardware.

What helped me in the long run was re-generating the fonts cache.
Uhm, what?
I noticed that the "fonts" app (should be "gnome-font-viewer") was hanging when I started it as a non-sudo user. This was also mentioned here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1348344/fonts-app-hangs-after-being-opened

Anyway I opened a Terminal session, switched to a sudo user (su <username>) and ran sudo gnome-font-viewer). It opened and regenerated the fonts. Afterwards I closed that window, logged out as the sudo user and reopened the "fonts" app as my non-sudo user - It wasn't hanging anyore.

Afterwards I could re-enable hardware acceleration in Chrome and the fonts were displayed as usual again.

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