Chrome 125: Diagram is blank after switching back to tab

GoJS
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Hello,

Since Chrome 125 (Windows), switching to a tab in the browser, waiting for about 4 min, and then switching back to another tab which contains a GoJS diagram will show that diagram completely blank, until I click and drag its content a bit.

This can be reproduced (at least for me) as follows:

  • Navigate to Introduction | GoJS and scroll a bit so that the first diagrammer is shown
  • Open another tab in the browser and navigate to any page
  • Wait approximately 4 min
  • Switch back to the tab containing the diagrammer: it is completely blank
  • Click on the background and drag a bit → the contents show again

If I deactivate Memory saver or Energy saver in the Performance settings in Chrome, I still have the problem.

If I however deactivate Use graphics acceleration when available in the System settings, I do not reproduce the problem anymore.

The problem did not occur in versions of Chrome prior to 125, so this looks like a bug in the latest version, but maybe you would have some insight or workaround?

(I have reproduced this with 2 Intel graphics cards --Intel Graphics P530 and Intel UHD Graphics 630 and an Nvidia card)

Thanks,
Marc.

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Chrome is aware of the issue, its breaking a lot of canvas-based apps. See: Chromium

Disabling shadows and any gradients seems to help. Or using a different browser.

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Thanks very much Simon. Let’s hope it won’t take them too long to release the update (I see they’ve already disabled canvas hibernation in a recent merge before they can determine the root cause).

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Yeah. Since it affects so many people, I’m kind of surprised it hasn’t been patched by now. But at least they’re very aware of the problem.