Computers PSA: Chrome update makes underlines look weird - Page 2

**DaFace** · 08-27-2014, 07:20 PM

If you're a Chrome user, you may have noticed that the underlines on ChiefsPlanet (and other sites - primarily that use Verdana) look too close to the letters, making it kind of hard to read. This is because Chrome moved to Microsoft's DirectWrite in Chrome 37, changing the way fonts are rendered. It's supposed to make them look better, but this is a pretty big deal-breaker for me.

If you, like me, can't stand it, you can go back to the old system by pasting this in your address bar and enabling the setting, then restarting Chrome:

chrome://flags/#disable-direct-write

You can restart chrome by doing:

chrome://restart

**DaFace** · 08-28-2014, 10:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DA_T_84

Hmm... It doesn't appear for me.

You may not have updated. Are you actually seeing the problem?

Dante84 · 08-28-2014, 11:10 AM

Yeah, it pisses me off.

**DaFace** · 08-28-2014, 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DA_T_84

Yeah, it pisses me off.

Strange - no idea unfortunately. For what it's worth, there are a few threads on the Chromium bug tracker about this, so they're looking into it. No telling how long it'll take to fix it though.

Silock · 09-03-2014, 10:19 PM

Any idea what's causing this ****ed up font shit?

I already did the disable direct write thing. No change.

cmh6476 · 09-03-2014, 10:31 PM

just open and read every thread it seems

Silock · 09-03-2014, 10:35 PM

****ing updated itself and fixed itself. WTF.

baitism · 09-03-2014, 10:38 PM

**007** · 09-04-2014, 04:01 AM

first world problems.

**DaFace** · 09-04-2014, 07:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Silock

****ing updated itself and fixed itself. WTF.

You have to completely restart Chrome after making changes to your advanced settings like that. That means manually shutting down any of its processes that keep running in the background.

Once you got a true restart done, the setting you change took effect.

displacedinMN · 09-06-2014, 05:03 PM

thanks. that was terrible

for some reason, the older I get, the worse my eyesight is

**DaFace** · 10-07-2014, 08:35 PM

This has been fixed in Chrome 38 if anyone wants to change the setting back.

08-27-2014, 07:20 PM
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09-03-2014, 10:19 PM	#19
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09-03-2014, 10:35 PM	#21
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10-07-2014, 08:35 PM	#26
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