Mesa issue with Chromium-based browsers
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Linux distributions may be providing an upgrade to the Mesa packages (system for rendering 3-D graphics) and a regression was found beginning in version 23.3.
If going to a web site and you see something like this (from CNN):
you are affected by this regression. It affects certain older GPU's. I have an AMD Radeon HD-5450 on a video card in a different desktop. A workaround is to un-check Use Hardware Acceleration When Available in Tools -> Settings -> Webpages and restart the browser.
A bug report indicated the issue was resolved for one person in Mesa 24.0, however, I booted into a live image of a different Linux distribution which provided Mesa 24.0 rc3.1 and had the same issue running UnGoogled Chromium, which was included with the image.
