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Chrome text flickering on select. I did everything mentioned at Annoying flickering in 16.04 LTS - Chrome but didn't change anything.

I recorded my screen. so you can see how it's flickering. Look at "anyway":

chrome text flickering

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and chromium 52.0.2743.116 and Nvidia Driver 361.42 (Also 367.57). I also tried chrome 53 and the result was the same. Firefox doesn't have this problem.

How can i fix it?

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    Took me a bit to see it, but it looks like all the as are flickering / bouncing when you are manipulating / highlighting the text. I don't know of a fix at the moment, but I can try to do some research for you, or hopefully someone that will come along will know the answer to this. – Terrance Oct 11 '16 at 17:12
  • @ElderGeek Look at a – ICE Oct 13 '16 at 17:51
  • @ElderGeek Just look at 'anyway' for 5 seconds – ICE Oct 13 '16 at 18:04
  • Been there, done that. – Elder Geek Oct 13 '16 at 18:06
  • Before that, how does it matter? – Peaceful Oct 14 '16 at 18:03
  • @Peaceful I don't know what cause the flickering, but it's not just about highlighting the text. sometimes when a page loading some new stuff with AJAX the flickering can appear on other text too. Just like the flickering I recorded. – ICE Oct 14 '16 at 18:14
  • Have you tried turning hardware acceleration off? Go to advanced setting and un-check that option. – Juan Antonio Oct 15 '16 at 04:55
  • @Juan Antonio Yes. I already mentioned that on my question. It can't fix the problem. – ICE Oct 15 '16 at 05:24
  • @ICE, have you tested disabling other features in chrome://flags/? like: Accelerated 2D canvas, Display list 2D canvas, Overlay Scrollbars, LCD text antialiasing, Distance field text. – user.dz Oct 19 '16 at 13:25
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    @user.dz Disabled LCD text antialiasing and fixed the problem. You can add that as answer and I'll accept it but the problem go further now! Texts being hard to read. – ICE Oct 19 '16 at 16:30
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    I would suggest keeping the question open and just vote mine up :) (it is a partial solution). So every reader know that you are still looking for solution, Someone may find a better one. – user.dz Oct 19 '16 at 22:23

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  1. Open this URL in Chrome chrome://flags/
  2. Disable LCD text antialiasing
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