Help me diagnose and treat Google Reader on iGoogle.

August 11, 2008 10:44 PM

Diagnose and treat my iGoogle page. Does anyone know why Google Reader in iGoogle looks like this no matter what browser or machine I view it on? Can it be fixed?

The facts: I'm on various Macs throughout the day, using Safari 3 and Firefox 3 to access iGoogle. Because of the mashed-together links, and the floating "up arrow" button, manipulating my feeds in iGoogle has become somewhat of a pain in the ass. In the grand scheme of things I realize it isn't a big deal, but I'd like to get it fixed.

To make matters stranger, the anomaly doesn't appear when I log in to my wife's iGoogle page.

I've submitted a report to Google, but I don't imagine mine is the sort of case that would get special attention.

Any ideas?

posted by joshwebb to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Response by poster: Yeah, I screwed up with the image link. Here's a fresh URL:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshillustrates/2756233352/

Sorry for the inconvenience.
posted by joshwebb at 10:55 PM on August 11, 2008

I see things like that sometimes when NoScript has blocked the script that is used to position different parts of the page. Are you using anything script- or ad- blocky like that?
posted by Bokononist at 11:21 PM on August 11, 2008

No solution but I have the same problem with my Google Reader and iGoogle. Also have Adblock running and tried disabling that but it didn't correct the problem.
posted by gfrobe at 1:42 AM on August 12, 2008

I have the same problem. I haven't been able to find a solution yet. It happens on multiple computers, all running XP/Firefox.
posted by Meagan at 4:05 AM on August 12, 2008