Help?

[gilana]

Certain sites, most notably LJ and Facebook, have started appearing very wrong for me lately. At first I thought it was just a browser issue, since I'm mostly using Chrome these days, but I've tried Firefox and Safari and it seems to be happening some with them as well.  It looks like maybe some sort of CSS issue to me, but I can't imagine what or why or how to fix it.  Anyone have any ideas?  Thanks!

ETA: I cleared the cache in Chrome and that seems to have fixed some of the problems... and I think some of the problem might be one particular facebook app I was trying to use, since that still seems to be broken on all browsers, and most other things are ok.

Comments

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

Mine does this randomly every once in a while--refreshing usually makes it go away so I haven't investigated further.

[gilana]

Yeah, I tried refreshing, and restarting the computer, neither of which helped. But it seems to be mostly workable for the moment, at least.

[cos]

What this looks like, is what those pages would like like in plain HTML without any CSS, which suggests that your browser is showing you these pages without rendering the CSS at all. Since it's affecting a lot of different pages, what I suspect happened is that you've cached some weirdly broken CSS file from one page, that was named "style.css" - which is the name that lots and lots of sites use for their main stylesheet - and that's preventing you from loading the style.css from any other site somehow? Hard to figure out how that might affect multiple browsers, though. But yeah, clearing your cache ought to help if it's something like what I'm guessing, and if this were happening on my computer, I think I'd be pursuing my semi-implausible theory and trying to figure out what's going on :)