Some users while trying to run Chrome Canary 77 on Mac now seeing a white screen and unable to use the browser, uninstalling and reinstalling the latest version not fixing the issue, here is a workaround for broken Chrome to work on Mac until Chromium team pushes a fix via update.
Given that you’re using unstable Google Chrome Canary expect it to crash and slower some times by consuming more CPU and memory, but it should be open and running, that’s not happening for Mac users using latest Chrome Canary. There is a buzz about this issue on the Chrome help forum and twitter.
Opening Canary with the following command line switch in Terminal solves the problem.
open -n -a /Applications/Google\ Chrome\ Canary.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome\ Canary --args --disable-gpu
Since we don’t have a Mac, neither we can confirm the presence of issue nor we can verify the fix. If you use Canary on Mac and affected and receiving a white screen of death, try the above workaround and let us know.
Since Canary updates on a daily basis, this issue can be fixed at any time and there is no ETA when that will happen, keep using the solution mentioned above and checking for updates.
We’ve written an article on why you should be using Chrome Canary along with Chrome stable, its worth a look.
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Thanks for this article. The above command line worked for me!