What is this, hypertext for ants?

March 19, 2016 12:20 PM

The font size of links on my Chrome browser has shrunk to teeny proportions. See here for an example.

Chrome did update itself about a week ago, though I didn't notice this happening at first - only in the last few days. I've not diddled with any settings or added extensions. Google is coming up blank, as apparently I'm the only person in history to have had this problem. Any ideas? Is it a virus? I did use unsecured wifi earlier this week.

posted by Gin and Broadband to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Right click one of those links and choose "Inspect" from the context popup.

Then find the css element that's giving you a smaller font-size. That element will have a link to which css file is forcing the smaller font to display for hypertext. Click that link and it will open that css file.

What is the URL of that link.

That's the first thing I would do.
posted by humboldt32 at 1:13 PM on March 19, 2016

One thing to try is to open an incognito window (File -> New Incognito Window), visit a page, and see if the problem persists.

If it does not, you can almost certainly point the finger at one of your extensions, at which point you can close the incognito window, type about:extensions into your address bar, disable all your extensions, then enable them one-by-one until you identify the culprit. (Chrome extensions can auto-update, so perhaps an automatic update to one of your extensions is to blame.)
posted by savetheclocktower at 2:25 PM on March 19, 2016

Thanks everyone - for some reason, it has righted itself (??!) and links (and it was only links) are now regular-economy-size. Have no idea what the heck I did before or after. If it happens again, at least I have these answers for reference.
posted by Gin and Broadband at 8:04 PM on March 19, 2016