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Interesting that Chrome (on OS X) displays a pear. I was under the impression Chrome used Core Graphics which would have exhibited this behaviour too?

Maybe not.

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Chrome for Mac used to use CoreGraphics, but it switched to Skia because Skia was a lot faster at drawing stuff. (It still uses CoreText for rasterizing fonts, and Cocoa for drawing buttons.)

Chrome uses Skia instead of CoreGraphics according to this: http://paulirish.com/2013/webkit-for-developers#webkit-commo...

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