Whatapp web constantly flickering

I am running Ubuntu 16.04

I started running whatsapp web for chrome today and the screen is constantly flickering.

It didn't happen earlier. Also it doesn't happen with Windows.

Why is it happening?

1 Answer

This answer fixed it for me:

I disabled hardware acceleration for my browser from Settings > Advance Settings > System > uncheck the hardware acceleration

This is something to do with hardware accelleration on Ubuntu. In my case I am running 17.10 and using an NVIDIA card.

I switched to a machine with the exact same card and driver, but running Debian 8, and the problem did not exist.

So while we have a fix, this indicates a problem unique to Ubuntu + Chrome, and not the video drivers specifically.