Strange blink/flickering using Google Chrome

[brdeveloper]

I've originally posted this on Apple Support Community, but maybe the people of MR have a faster and better answer.

The previous post described the issue:

OS X, MacBook PRO 13" only a year old; 'slight' flicker not all the way to black screen just started about a week ago. Thought it might be power adapter (cord frayed--why doesn't Apple ever fix this? Power cable weak spot.) Took to GENIUS. Ran tests. Everything looked ok. SInce I had restarted problem didn't seem to recur. Then, today, back to flicker. No logic to it. She speculated it was a phantom ghost of a flash player as they occur on web pages without our knowing. I use chrome as browser and am wondering if there is any setting that would help there.
It has flashed (quick blink of screen but not total dip down to background screen all the time--sometime see quick flash of desttop image) during offline programs as well.

Any software solutions anyone? I don't think Apple knows.

And my answer:
Walker131, I'm having the very same issue. My configuration is:

Late 2009 White Macbook Unibody 2,26GHz 9400M (MacBook6,1), OSX 10.6.8

Looks like it happens only when using Google Chrome. It can be caused by a graphics hack that only Chrome employs. It acts just as you described - a quick blink apperantly inside the browser's document area (DOM container). When it blinks, I can see the desktop image behind or a window from a background application.

It's a fast 1-time flickering which looks like a subliminal message and occurs frequently when using Google web apps (Gmail, Google Search, etc).

I was concerned if this could be a failure caused by a cold bga soldering in the graphics adapter, but I presume it's not the case after reading this topic.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Do you have Disable GPU Vsync or any of the other graphics-related flags turned on in chrome://flags/ ?

 

[brdeveloper]

Do you have Disable GPU Vsync or any of the other graphics-related flags turned on in chrome://flags/ ?

Disable GPU Vsync is off.

 

[htmanning]

I'm having a similar issue with a 2011 15" MBP. Whenever the graphics switches from integrated to discrete, or vice versa, Chrome has a redraw/flicker. I haven't noticed it in any other app or browser.