OK, fixed. I use an Optimus laptop (yeah, bad decision) which Chromium doesn't support. The solution is to tell it to support it anyway: $ optirun chromium-br

OK, fixed. I use an Optimus laptop (yeah, bad decision) which Chromium doesn't support. The solution is to tell it to support it anyway: $ optirun chromium-browser --ignore-gpu-blacklist Now it works fine. Edit: fixing the problem on firefox: $ optirun firefox