Hi,

Sorry to bother you, but last night I tried Chrome for the first time, and I didn't notice anything wrong with how my blog, Medical Lessons, appeared. Today it's a mess in Chrome - the links (which are many) are illegible and the general text is strangely aligned. So I tried updating to Atalhualpa 3.6, and that didn't help. (Subsequently I saw your post to not upgrade, so I reverted to 3.5.3).

Bottom line: my site is unreadable in Chrome. Firefox is fine, as is IE, and as far as I know it's OK in MAC systems. Please help!

Thanks,
Elaine

http://www.medicallessons.net

I see no problem in Chrome in XP

I do see some strange behavior in Chrome. Could you try deactivating Apture and see is the problem persists. If that doesn't fix it try deactivating other plugins. To test issues I am having I usually deactivate all the plugins and if the problem goes away I start reactivating a few at t a time to finde the culprit.

Hi Larry, I tried inactivating the Apture, with no luck.

I have very few plugins I don't use anymore, as I've been disabling them little by little due to loading time problems. (My host company says the plugins were the cause of heavy memory usage and slow load-times, and I think they're right, more or less.) At this point I'm reluctant to disable more, because the few remaining (including a "chrome compatibility" plugin) seem necessary. I can try some of the "social" stuff, but it's hard to believe those are to blame.

The problem is only in the central column posts, not in the widget text in the sidebars, and as far as I can tell is new. (Possibly since the WP upgrade a few days ago?) I don't have tons of traffic, but enough that I think someone would have told me if this has been on-going.

Thank you, ES

The idea with deactivating the plugins is just to rule that out as the cause. Another test is to temporarily switch to the TwentyTen theme to see if the problems persist. That would tell us if it is theme related.

I guess I was half-hoping the Atahualpa 3.6 would fix the problem rather than my further "reducing" the appearance of my site. I do think it's Chrome-specific and coding-related.

I did notice, also, that some of the text in widgets (such as my "HON" emblem, on the left side) has messed up alignment, too in Chrome. The standardized Atahualpa widget font (which is usually limiting, if you ask me; I wish I could change it easily) is "protected" from this problem - so that might be a clue as to what's going on.
-Elaine

Another point - JuggleDad and Larry (?) is that if JD really sees the site without trouble in Chrome, that suggests the problem is with my Chrome settings. Except that all the other websites I've tried in Chrome look as usual.

Thanks again, ES

Hi Juggledad, I tried again, and tried also installing Chrome compatibility service packs for older Windows OS's, but there's none for Vista (yes, I know that's the slowest and worst Windows operating system, but that's what I' have for now).

Regardless, I realized that all the other windows in Chrome (NYT, my email, Twitter - which has a zillion links) all look fine. It's only my blog, so it must be a WP and/or bfa coding problem. Also, it's all the text that misaligned, not just the link text, with hyphens added all over the place. The problem doesn't appear in the sidebar widgets.

I've attached a screen shot copied and pasted into a .pdf, in case you want (or have time) to see for yourself.
- Thanks,
Elaine