Steam Friends-related windows go blank

[Bottinator22]

Yesterday, Steam updated for me and suddenly, Friends-related windows and dropdowns started suddenly going blank at certain times, then a new window would open then "crash" as well. This often repeats until Steam ends up spamming a lot of windows. When a window goes blank, its name changes to something like "about:blank?createflags=18&minwidth=400&minheight=400"

I've tried deleting clientui folder, running the client via terminal to see what's going on, deleting web browser cache and cookies, download cache, restarting my PC, and restarting Steam. Nothing worked.
I've noticed that this would happen sometimes when typing messages, posting messages, or even just selecting the window or hovering over something. Or even it just happening seemingly randomly.

Running Kubuntu 18.04, haven't had this issue before, never reported here before.

[Blykam]

I get this bug, too.
I'm on Windows 10 2004 with latest Steam Beta Update.
Randomly crashing Friendlist-related windows. It's almost impossible to use the friendlist for me

[Norival]

I have the same issue as well, on Debian.I think it only happened to me while I was in game, so maybe a bad interaction with the in-game overlay? Quite annoying as it also steal the focus briefly while creating a new window.

[Jonathan]

Same issue, running Linux Manjaro with kernel 5.8.18-1-MANJARO, and the KDE desktop environment.

[Countersync]

I also am experiencing this issue. I noticed the Steam Friends / Chat related windows bugged out when I loaded a world in Factorio. (They may have done so after the game started, I just noticed it after loading the level.)

Arch Linux, recently updated. GPU acceleration disabled in Steam settings (video acceleration still enabled),

Linux 5.9.6-arch1-1
Mesa 20.2.1-1 (various libs) + GLU 9.0.1-2 / lib32-glu 9.0.1-1
Radeon 285 2GB GPU (I want to refresh this winter... if parts are ever in stock)

KDE... 20.08-1 various packages

[PROTOTYPE]

I'm getting this on Arch, Intel graphics. No beta updates available so far.

[Dr.Acula]

get this too

[Sadist_cain]

same, new messages or maximising the window the entirety of friends crashes with "about blank" and can only fix by disconnecting and reconnecting.

[Bottinator22]

I don't get the bug anymore, but it seems others still do

[Dat Jonx]

Still viable, btw.

[󠀡Doug]

"about:blank?createflags=18&minwidth=400&minheight=400&restoredetails=1&x=187&y=187&w=740&h=650"
Happened to me today.
I guess it happens when steam tries to create some kind of hover effect.
My computer was (is) slow, so maybe some process or script stopped responding, resulting in this.

[barnaba]

I have this too, steam starting to spam windows titled "about:blank?createflags=18&minwidth=226&minheight=400&restoredetails=1&x=1080&y=474&w=1920&h=1038"

There seems to be a lot of them - much more windows than I could possibly have steam windows open. It looks a bit like one of those ie popup "forkbombs" from the nineties.

Here's my system info https://pastebin.com/WXViV7Va

[󠀡Doug]

Originally posted by barnaba:

I have this too, steam starting to spam windows titled "about:blank?createflags=18&minwidth=226&minheight=400&restoredetails=1&x=1080&y=474&w=1920&h=1038"

There seems to be a lot of them - much more windows than I could possibly have steam windows open. It looks a bit like one of those ie popup "forkbombs" from the nineties.

Here's my system info https://pastebin.com/WXViV7Va

Eww, Linux!
JK, Linux is cool 😎
I don't understand about Linux but your computer is much better than mine.

[DieFlex]

i got the same problem. the friends network window is just black. cannot interact with it at all. when i open the browser its hard to even see what is in the window... i found one thread about this from 2019. is this so hard to fix?

systeminfo:

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Hyper-V - Virtualisierung in Firmware aktiviert Nein
Hyper-V - Datenausführungsverhinderung Ja

[Mending simulator]

any solution???

[barnaba]

BTW, I have disabled beta because of this issue, and it seems to be present in the non-beta client as well.