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MicrosoftDev channel update to 81.0.403.1 is live
Just to also confirm. Also getting some sort of Chrome render machine bug distorting fonts. Chrome itself has had to deal with this in some past versions, if memory serves. Random. Cleared temporarily by selecting or scrolling. Looks like this:
jbart007, josh_bodner and Heath Bates
I'm also encountering text rendering issues like you'd described occurring when selecting text after updating to Edge v81.0.403.1 and also installing KB4528760 and KB4532938 for Win10, like seen in the below screenshot:
I've provided some additional details (as well as referenced your comments) in my attempts to narrow down under what circumstances this occurs in a new thread:
Bug: Selecting Text Causing Other Lines to Render as Random Characters (in Edge v81.0.403.1)
Hopefully, that new thread will at least help save time for others encountering the issue and considering submitting bug reports regarding it or provide some more details to help narrow down and fix the issue.
The issue remains in some cases even after deselecting text, and appears intermittent, as I'd detailed in that thread. Alt-tabbing and other cases where rendering/repaint gets triggered again result in different random characters appearing each time.
Please feel free to chime in, in that thread, if have any further details to add.
- 1. the problem is only happening in Edge Dev channel, other channels like stable or Canary don't have that problem.
2. Windows 10 updates don't have effects on it, very unlikely, because I'm on insider fast ring, didn't install those updates that belong to stable Windows 10, yet I could easily reproduce that bug on Edge Dev.
3. best thing is to wait it out, the fix is already included in Canary, so on the next major update, Dev will also receive the bug fixes.HotCakeXUnfortunately, the major update for Dev channel just out today (81.0.410.1) failed to fix the text rendering issues occurring after text selection.
You can see the issue remains in the below screenshot (eg. occurring on this page) with random characters under "Pay as you go" above the selected text, which appears as different random symbols every time re-rendering occurs (eg. Alt-Tab and back).
Also, the issue remains even after deselecting text, as shown in the below screenshot, even after Alt-Tab or otherwise causing it be re-rendered again:
Yes,
"the visual glitch is completely random and not caused by any user actions, although highlighting the text should fix it (at least until it happens again). It's caused by an upstream Chromium bug, and we received the fix for it from them earlier this week, so it should make it into the next Dev release."
@HotCakeX thanks for the update. I'm glad to hear a fix is in the pipeline for release to Edge Dev channel. Edge Dev just updated now, so hopefully don't end up seeing the issue in it. Will reply if reoccurs.
