>>>>UPDATE. I re-started. It still seems to visually refresh :( In particular, my gmail.com is visually refreshing. I think I also recently installed latest Silverlight, but I'm not 100% certain.
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>>7.0.517.44 - it says up to date.
>
>Try this one
>(edit - sent old link first)
>hhttp://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?extra=devchannel
>Ver 9.0.570.0 beta

I updated it, but the flickering it still there and it's almost hard to bear :(

I'm wondering, may be it's a virus? Two sites flicker a lot - MSDN and gmail. The rest seems to be OK.