[SOLVED] Google Chrome broken?

[timt]

Google Chrome on Kubuntu 22.04 is completely broken on my laptop as of this morning :-( It was working fine yesterday evening. The whole canvas is glitching and most of the text is white on white background (i.e. invisible). It is unusable. This issue only affects Chrome as far as I can tell - all other apps I have tested this morning (including Firefox, Thunderbird, Konsole, etc) all work fine.

I have just tried installing Chromium and that works fine.

This is perhaps related to a similar issue reported this morning with the Brave browser:
https://www.kubuntuforums.net/forum/...to-have-broken

I have reported this to Google in addition to posting here.

System info:
Operating System: Kubuntu 22.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.7
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.92.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.15.0-72-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz
Memory: 7.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620

[timt]

Thanks Teunis! Removing .config/google-chrome solved the problem for me. I already have Chrome syncing my settings, so they were all restored automatically when I opened it up after removing the config dir.

[jlittle]

I think I had a similar problem with the flatpak chromium version, 113.0.5672.126. There were horrible flatpak errors. I removed chromium in Discover and something asked me whether to delete some files, and I clicked yes. On reinstall of the exact same version it runs fine. I lost the minimal settings changes I'd made.