Jumbled Code Posts on Forum in Chrome Browser
artkennedy
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Can anyone tell me why I'm seeing this when reading posts on the Forum that contain Code examples? I'm using the Chrome Browser under Windows 7.
966 x 285 - 81K
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-Phil
Does this happen all the time or is there a specific example you can point us at?
Their browser returns 100s of 1000s of results from the same search that returned 60+ results using MS IE in private mode.
MS IE warns me of unsafe sites and lets none change a single thing on my computer. I go to those same sites using Gaggle and hear not a peep.
I can go to the same sites with MS IE and Goggle and get a different front page depending on the browser I am using.
Tim
-Phil
Fascinating, I have no such problems.
Could you pleas post such a search and links to examples of pages that are "unsafe" or different on IE.
Of course many things will be different on IE given that unless it is a very new version it does not support a lot of nice HTM5 features.
Web pages were never intended to be rendered exactly the same on all browsers anyway.
If a site checks your browser type and serves up different stuff that is hardly the browsers fault.
And what has any of this got to do with the problem in hand?
It clearly is a font issue. Or possibly an encoding issue.
My claim is that it's nothing to do with installing the Parallax font on your machine. Simply because I have never done so and I don't see that problem.
Edit: Ah I see what you mean, the Parallax font may be installed and used but is somehow corrupt. In that case removing it would be a good experiment.
Doesn’t solve the browser problem but make the text readable.
As feng mentioned, adjusting the view size with either the [ctrl+mousewheel], or [ctrl and + -] keys will help you find screen display sizes that render properly.
I have never seen this happen at any font size. Well, perhaps it does happen when the size is so small I would not expect to be able to read it anyway.
I use Firefox and see the same jumble fairly often.
[code]ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
On Windows 7 in Chrome 32 at anything over 250%.
Hardly an issue as that is already too huge to be required normally.
All my other browsers on Windows and Debian are just fine at all zoom levels.
I have no Parallax font installed so I get square boxes for the 10th and 12th rows. The schematic symbols, lines and such.
Recommend a switch from Win to Debian.
FireFox on Win 7 and Debian.
Chrome on Win 7 and Debian.
IE 11 on Win 7
Only Chrome on Win 7 has the problem.
The old XP box here is feeling very sick. Takes about ten minutes to load a forum page. No idea why it's on the same network. I gave up with it.
One should up grade to Debian just to be on the safe side though
I get the same problem for different zoom levels in Chrome on Windows. Using Chromium on Linux usually fails in other disastrous ways.
Curious as ever, what disastrous ways does Chrome fail on Linux?
Any links to examples?
I have two Chrome issues bugging be at the moment:
1) That pesky memory leaking in openspin.js
2) webgl is terrible slow. Not usually a problem but on this old AMD64 with integrated graphics it's very sluggish and worst of all jerky.
Heater I have thought about changing to Debian but not comfortable in doing so. Also not liking the cryptic command line as I have been dumbed down by windows. Was thinking also about Cygwin but at its heart its still windows. Debian at this time is beyond my skill level.
I agree with Jazzed. Cygwin has it's uses but what you get is all the crypticness of the Unix command line and all the weirdness of Windows.
Firing up Debian or Mint or whatever in Virtual Box is a much nicer idea.
Don't be afraid of the command line. It's a lot to learn for sure but you will be happy you did.
I think I agree about Cygwin. Every time I re read the Wiki pages on it I feel less confident about it. I tried the Raspberry Pi to try Debian and had some success but needed something more to get comfortable with it. Had no issues with CPM back in the S100 days. Now command line intimidates me!!
If you could handle CP/M you can handle a Linux shell. It's a lot bigger with a lot more features in the shell and a lot more commands available. It's all good stuff that you will appreciate after a you gain a little mastery.
Well took my first step at leaving windows, I downloaded VirtualBox. Will read more on Wiki before I install it tomorrow. I had been under the impression it was only for Mac's to run windows for heavens sake. Wish me luck!
Back to topic at hand and sorry for hijacking this thread. I went to MicroElectronica forum to look at code snippets with my existing Chrome. Looked at several listing with different levels of zoom. They ALL displayed fine! Not conclusive I know but what do you all think?
Hi Ken, most distros allow you to do a live boot and then if you want you can install Linux so that it boots into Linux or Windows. I normally manually repartition the drive for this. Although I use VirtualBox to run WINXP in Linux, I can't see the advantage of running Linux in VirtualBox in Windows, it's still sitting on a flimsy and bloated platform.
My personal preference is for Linux Mint running Cinnamon desktop but the good thing about these distros is that you can have more than one to boot into plus each one can have different desktop managers to log into.
I am conservative here so it will be baby steps. As I said I played with th RasPi and had some sucess with it but the cryptic nature of command line sti;; concerns me!