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Help Distorted text rendering in Chrome

DrewInc

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About a week or 2 ago I started having font rendering issues in Chrome on my Note 4 (SM-N910V). It's not always, but frequent enough that it's driving me crazy. I have cleared the cache, uninstalled/reinstalled Chrome and still the same issue. When it happens, it's like only part of the text characters are displayed or even complete words are missing, but they're still there because if I highlight and select the blank areas around the partial displayed text, the remaining text will usually finally display. Sometimes they will correct themselves if I scroll down a few. Also, sometimes the text on a page my render perfectly and appear fine, and then while I'm reading it, suddenly just change to the distorted text as I mentioned above. It seems to be specific to Chrome and Chrome Beta, because I installed Firefox, and so far, no issue with text rendering in Firefox. I hope someone more knowledgeable than me can explain what is happening.

I have pictures which should help a lot.
1st pic shows the text at its worst, 2nd shows after I select a word and how it clears up the text in that section, 3rd shows when I select more than one word, how the remaining text area corrects itself also. Then an extra one for another example.
 

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Same here... Began a few days ago. I think I'll simply download an other browser as I tried everything and couldn't fix the problem.
 
Personally, no. I have the exact same problem as OP. I haven't done anything particular, it just happened.
 
Same exact thing is happening on my Note 4. Started recently. I downloaded Firefox and Edge to see if they did the same thing. Firefox doesn't but weirdly Edge does. I haven't installed any fonts or made any system changes. Stock Android on my AT&T Note 4.
 
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