Chromium-based browsers flicker for a split second after maximizing

It’s like the browser settles into the display for a moment. This happens on Chromium, Brave and Vivaldi. Doesn’t happen on Firefox, Midori and Konqueror. I’m on XFCE.

I want to stress that it’s not a serious problem, I’m mostly just being curious. Perhaps someone’s encountered this issue before. Otherwise - no need to go out of your way to help me.

System:    Kernel: 5.14.10-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.14-x86_64
           root=UUID=cd849d35-c8c4-4f26-bdc4-002e98527dcd rw quiet apparmor=1
           security=apparmor resume=UUID=7a219f56-7b22-4c13-95b0-edfcebd9ed3d
           udev.log_priority=3
           Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.29 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.16.1 vt: 7
           dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B360-PLUS v: Rev 1.xx serial: <filter>
           UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1601 date: 07/30/2019
Battery:   Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M350 Wireless Mouse serial: <filter>
           charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
CPU:       Info: 6-Core model: Intel Core i5-9400F bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Kaby Lake
           note: check family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10) microcode: EA cache:
           L2: 9 MiB
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 34814
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800
           4: 800 5: 800 6: 800
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
           Type: spec_store_bypass
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
           Type: spectre_v1
           mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
           IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
           Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GP108 [GeForce GT 1030] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia
           v: 470.63.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1d01
           class-ID: 0300
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.16.1 driver:
           loaded: nvidia display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x286mm (20.0x11.3")
           s-diag: 583mm (23")
           Monitor-1: HDMI-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 93 size: 527x296mm (20.7x11.7")
           diag: 604mm (23.8")
           OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.63.01
           direct render: Yes
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
           v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
           chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
           Device-2: NVIDIA GP108 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fb8
           class-ID: 0403
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.14.10-1-MANJARO running: yes
           Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
           Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
           Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.38 running: yes
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
           vendor: ASUSTeK PRIME B450M-A driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000
           bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
           IF: enp7s0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter type: USB
           driver: r8188eu bus-ID: 1-11:3 chip-ID: 0bda:8179 class-ID: 0000
           serial: <filter>
           IF: wlp0s20f0u11 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 1.84 TiB used: 1.1 TiB (59.6%)
           SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Silicon Power
           model: SPCC M.2 PCIe SSD size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
           logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
           rev: ECFM22.5 temp: 27.9 C scheme: GPT
           ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-08WN4A0
           size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
           type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: 1A02 scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 50 GiB size: 48.97 GiB (97.93%) used: 25.76 GiB (52.6%)
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%) used: 296 KiB (0.1%)
           fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
           ID-3: /home raw-size: 887.37 GiB size: 872.44 GiB (98.32%)
           used: 339.51 GiB (38.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 27.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 38 C
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 35%
Info:      Processes: 281 Uptime: 11h 38m wakeups: 22 Memory: 15.55 GiB
           used: 4.26 GiB (27.4%) Init: systemd v: 249 tool: systemctl Compilers:
           gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 12.0.1 Packages: 1408 pacman: 1402 lib: 397 flatpak: 0
           snap: 6 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.07

I have same problem. Did you fix it?

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Afraid not. I’ve just been using a different browser.