Cant Debug Chrome?

rightisleft · 01-30-2014, 02:50 AM

Howdy,
I just purchased an ASUS MB MB168B+ portable external USB 3 powered display. I noticed some extremely poor performance when doing simple things like running the chrome web inspector tools. ( It stops rendering the document, and shows through to my desktop background ) Seems to handle things like 1080p youtube streaming just fine...

I'm still on 10.8.5, so mavericks didn't bork these drivers. They just seem really poorly designed. Its a 2013 Macbook pro with USB 3 support.

Does anyone have some tips or hacks to improve performance? I love the form factor, but debugging my app was kind of my #1 goal for this little device.

EddieMa · 02-11-2014, 01:38 AM

I had problems with Chrome +DisplayLink in the past -- I ultimately switched to Safari. I think it has something to do with how Chrome offloads some rendering to the GPU -- which is not available over USB. Not sure if that's *really* the reason tho.

01-30-2014, 02:50 AM	#1
rightisleft Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2014 Posts: 1	Cant Debug Chrome? Howdy, I just purchased an ASUS MB MB168B+ portable external USB 3 powered display. I noticed some extremely poor performance when doing simple things like running the chrome web inspector tools. ( It stops rendering the document, and shows through to my desktop background ) Seems to handle things like 1080p youtube streaming just fine... I'm still on 10.8.5, so mavericks didn't bork these drivers. They just seem really poorly designed. Its a 2013 Macbook pro with USB 3 support. Does anyone have some tips or hacks to improve performance? I love the form factor, but debugging my app was kind of my #1 goal for this little device.

02-11-2014, 01:38 AM	#2
EddieMa Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 33	I had problems with Chrome +DisplayLink in the past -- I ultimately switched to Safari. I think it has something to do with how Chrome offloads some rendering to the GPU -- which is not available over USB. Not sure if that's really the reason tho.