How-To Fix a Green Screen When Playing Videos in Firefox or Google Chrome

By Timothy Tibbetts

on 06/15/2023

As if the blue screen of death wasn't enough, Google Chrome can sometimes give you a green screen while watching videos in any Chrome or Firefox powered web browser. Luckily, it's almost always an easy fix.

1: Disable GPU Rendering

Google Chrome:

You can check the status of your hardware acceleration by typing in chrome://gpu/ in the address bar and hitting enter. Often you will find it that it's on and we want to disable it.

Go to Settings by clicking on the three dots in the top right corner. Now go to Advanced at the bottom and scroll until you see System. Uncheck Use hardware acceleration when available and click on RELAUNCH when prompted.

Firefox:

Open Options and go to General, Performance. Uncheck Use hardware acceleration when available and restart Firefox.

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2: Update your Drivers

Download Driver Booster and update all of your drivers or simply find your video card driver using the links below.

NVIDIA:
Download NVIDIA drivers for Windows 10
Download NVIDIA drivers for Windows 7 and 8

AMD:
AMD Catalyst Driver for Windows 10 / 8 / 7 32 Bit
AMD Catalyst Driver for Windows 10 / 8 / 7 64 Bit

Intel:
Intel Graphics Driver for Windows 10
Intel Graphics Driver for Windows 7 and 8

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