Chrome on Wayland: having more than one window makes it stutter

Bug #1916458 reported by fcole90
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Bug Description

If I'm using Chrome (Version 88.0.4324.182 (Official Build) (64-bit)) under Wayland, and I pick a tab, and drag it out of the current window, it correctly creates a new window. But this new window has performance issues, and often freezes for a few seconds while using it. The original window seems to be affected as well, but to a lesser degree, in my experiments. Other windows seem to be unaffected.

I also checked it was not a one-session problem, so I logged-out and back in, tried again, same result.

This behaviour renders Chrome very poorly usable when this happens.

Update:
Closing any additional window, makes Chrome work smoothly again.

The same issue happens when opening a new window from the panel or from the menu, so the issue appears to be about handling more than one window.

Doing the same on X doesn't result in any apparent performance degradation.

Works fine on:
- Chromium (Version 88.0.4324.182 (Official Build) snap (64-bit))
- Firefox (85.0.1 (64-bit))
- Microsoft Edge (Version 90.0.796.0 (Official build) dev (64-bit))

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Affects:
- Chrome Stable: Version 88.0.4324.182 (Official Build) (64-bit)
- Chrome Dev: Version 90.0.4421.5 (Official Build) dev (64-bit)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.36.4-1ubuntu1~20.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-65.73-generic 5.4.78
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-65-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.16
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Mon Feb 22 11:24:08 2021
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-03 (324 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Beta amd64 (20200401)
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.7+git20201123-0.20.04.1
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2020-09-16T18:33:51.843197

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fcole90 (fcole90) wrote :
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fcole90 (fcole90) wrote :

Update:
Closing any additional window, makes Chrome work smoothly again.

The same issue happens when opening a new window from the panel or from the menu, so the issue appears to be about handling more than one window.

summary: - Wayland: Using Chrome, taking a tab out in a new window makes it stutter
+ Chrome on Wayland: having more than one window makes it stutter
description: updated
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fcole90 (fcole90) wrote :

Update:
Tested in Chromium (latest snap) and Firefox, no issue when opening multiple windows.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1906792, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

fcole90 (fcole90)
description: updated
fcole90 (fcole90)
description: updated
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fcole90 (fcole90) wrote :

Hi, Daniel, I'm not sure if this is the same bug, because:

1. Minimizing one of the two windows doesn't always make the other work fine, only sometimes.
2. The issues DOES happen if both windows are on the same workspace.

Especially point 2 makes me think it might be something different 🤔

description: updated
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

1. Isn't really important to the bug description.

2. Yeah, we know. That's why I removed mention of workspaces from the title for bug 1906792 yesterday and another user in the upstream bug already mentioned workspaces are not a factor (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1563).

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