elementary web does not render websites

[davidak]

Describe the bug

Here is a demonstration video: https://youtu.be/wGp0jpSEB_U

This is how it looks:

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open elementary Web
2. Visit some pages
3. Instead of pages, you see dark grey (with dark mode)

Expected behavior

Working browser that renders websites

Additional context

This is not a new issue. I had it on NixOS as long as i can think.

The browser did also not work on elementary OS. Pages like youtube crash. So i never considered a usable program.

Notify maintainers

@bobby285271

Metadata

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 5.10.88, NixOS, 21.11 (Porcupine)
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.3.16
• channels(root): "home-manager-21.11, nixos-21.11.334797.6979c0e49bb, nixos-hardware, nixos-unstable-22.05pre340469.cb372c3b888"
• nixpkgs: /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos

[bobby285271]

Actually this works for me.

webkit://gpu and random webpage:

But I think this is probably related to webkit and this is a duplicate of #32580, and a possible workaround is this.

[davidak]

The workaround does work, so it seem to be related.

Tested with: env WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 epiphany --new-window

I'm using an Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti right now.

[AdsonCicilioti]

The workaround does work, so it seem to be related.

Tested with: env WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 epiphany --new-window

I'm using an Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti right now.

This is a beautiful workaround that, despite displaying the web pages, everything is extremely busy: scrolling pages, css animations, etc.

[sinner]

It still happens, why was this issue closed? Was it closed due to a workaround?