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Just a quick tip for anyone getting pixelated screens (shitty Google Chrome extensions)

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
This is just an FYI that worked! Who fucking knew.

Starting this year, I'd get weird green pixelly dots on my laptop (only a year or two old) and sometimes going to different sites there would be a split second black out of my screen.

Reading sites, people say it can be anything from a failing gpu, motherboard issue, something wrong with the connection internally between wires and screen, driver updates etc.....

- I did a bunch of tests and showed nothing wrong
- I tried to update drivers..... nothing to update. Already updated
- As usual, someone says turn off hardware acceleration. Nothing to turn off, already off

So here I am thinking I'm screwed, out of warranty and eventually this green dot shit will bomb my laptop.

I check more sites and some people say get rid of some Google Chrome Extensions. It might be an issue if there was an update and that extension isn't working right.

I deleted a few extensions that involved video downloading (I forget which ones as I still have one installed).

BINGO. It fucking worked!?!?! The second I did that, all issues disappeared!
 
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