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jasimon9

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Mar 11, 2009
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I just created a Parallels VM for macOS and upgraded it to Mojave. At first I found that Chrome did not work. Main things that fail:

1. Significant parts of web pages on any web site do not display.
2. Cannot enter into fields. In particular cannot enter into the address bar. What seems to happen is that text gets entered in "white on white". As soon as a character is entered, it seems to insert space for about 5 characters and a large, empty drop down appears, where normally suggestions appear.
3. Most of the controls at the top of the browser window do not appear either.

If you just keep entering characters in the address bar, you can get to a website. But significant parts of the page to not display. If you point to where elements should be on the page, portions of that content may show up.

The result is a completely unusable browser.

Please consider the following points regarding the configuration:

1. Safari works perfectly.
2. Firefox works perfectly.
3. I have attempted to clear cache, but going into the Chrome Settings section hardly works either.
4. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Chrome numerous times, with no improvement.

I finally found a fix by mucking around in the Chrome settings: you have to disable hardware acceleration. I had seen that as a suggestion in connection with El Capitan, but the setting function worked so poorly that I could not navigate to it. With some patience, I finally did get to it, and it solves the problem.

I am thinking that it is probably not actually a Mojave issue after all, but a Parallels 14/Chrome issue. There is discussion of this issue at https://forum.parallels.com/threads/macosx-high-sierra-guest-graphics-issues.344640/.
 
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