Hey, So if anyone out there having an old chromium profile and having issues with video playback or high CPU usage should listen and check some stuff out.
First of all navigate to chromium://gpu and check if you have hardware acceleration enabled, if you do, there is nothing to do you can stop reading this email, on the other hand if it says that you are software accelarted only, quit chrome then start chrome with the --ignore-gpu-blacklist flag then quit chrome again and start using it the way you did before. It is only necessary to start chrome with this flag once, then you can skip it. It turns out that at one point chromium had an issue and flipped a switch in your profile that turns GPU acceleration off. This issue got fixed at one point since then but you actually have to manually force it to ignore the gpu blacklist to make it work again. If you have recently created a new profile, you should not have this issue, but the chrome://gpu page can tell you what's going on. We have an old profile saved that suffers from this issue and I am going try to figure it out and come up with a fix so that you don't have to start chrome with the --ignore-gpu-blacklist flag.
