I tried center-clicking refresh to open a duplicate in another tab. That didn't help. I then tried clicking "New Tab" and pasting the URL in there. That worked. So I ended up with two seemingly identical tabs that I could in theory duplicate my actions in each, and each would behave exactly the same. Except they don't. The second one highlights visited pages, the first does not. Interesting but useless to me. I tried real(?) Chromium and it seems to be fixed again. For how long, who knows. That's with version 27.0.1425.0 (184975) and comes from here. Caution, when you get to the "Win" directory, it's so full of old builds(and new) that it might load very slowly. At least it did for me in my virtual machine.

Original poster here....again.... I have an update...but unfortunately, no solution to the spotting problem. It's been a while since I've posted, so let me give a quick summary of what I've done. Over the last couple years, I've had 3 water quality professionals come to my house to help me diagnose my water spot problem. The first guy (a Kinetico rep) had no idea what the problem was but offered a solution: install a Kinetico system and if the problem goes away, then great! If not and the spotting problem still exists, then he will uninstall his Kinetico system for $200. I passed on that offer. The second guy was unsure of what the problems is. I mentioned I had some silica in the raw water (lab tested it 15.9 mg/L) and he suggested utilizing polyphosphate/siliphos. Although he said it was food grade and harmless, my wife and I weren't so sure about adding that to our water supply, so we passed on that too. The third guy pretty much said "it is what it is"....he said they installed a whole house RO system for someone with similar problems....obviously, i declined that expensive proposal.... I contacted another water professional. He's a little far from me, but he helped me over the phone. He had me do a Langelier Saturation Index (LSI) test with a local lab. The results were a -1.5 (serious corrosion) on the LSI Index and the lab stated "Water is undersaturated with respect to calcium carbonate. Undersaturated water has a tendency to remove existing calcium carbonate protective coatings in pipelines and equipment." So, the professional had me use a blending screw on my softener to leak a little hardness into the treated water (approx 1-2gpg of hardness). Well, I still got spots unfortunately...and the water is no longer slippery/slick. I gave up on that idea. As far as the silica, does anyone have any input on that? Are the levels (15.9 mg/L) high enough to cause issues? Has anyone used any siliphos or polyphosphate treatments? Are they safe? Do they work? One other thing: I have noticed that I have some etching/pitting on the glass shower door chrome hinge and chrome screws....Not sure what would cause that....and I did have that before I tried the blending screw.... As I said previously, I've been trying to get to the bottom of this spotting issue. Up to this point, I have been merely wiping down the chrome fixtures after each shower. But, that doesn't fix the problem..........that's the same thing as just adding oil to car that's losing a quart a day. Plus, I can see where spots are starting to accumulate on the tile walls of the tub....and on the sink bowls....and bathtub.... So......fast forward to the past few months: In order to try to figure out what exactly the spots are made of, I took the lid from one of my wife's stock pots (I think it is aluminium?) and filled the lid with water.....about an 1/8" inch or so. Then i put the lid on top of my wood pellet stove. The heat caused the water to evaporate leaving only the white residue (and some wood pellet dust). I attached pictures of the lid for all to see. I did this for a few days and then I took the lid to the local lab and had him test it. Here are the results of the tests on the residue on the lid: Copper: 3.16 mg/L Iron: 10.29 mg/L Manganese: .96 mg/L Hardness: 64 mg/L Sodium: >1265 mg/L Just for reference, here are my water specs (from my original post): Here is my raw water analysis: Hardness - 21 GPG (grains per gallon) Iron - 0.05 mg/l (ferrous) Manganese - ND (not detected) pH - 7.3 standard units TDS (total dissolved solids) - 472 ppm My treated water analysis : Copper - none detected Iron - none detected Manganese - none detected Chloride - 11.9 mg/L Hardness- none detected Sodium - 110.7 mg/L Nitrate as N - none detected Nitrite as N - none detected Color - 0 Odor - 0 PH - 7.8 Turbidity - 0.3 NTU Sulfate - 40.5 mg/L TDS - 364 ppm Silica: 15.9 mg/L My existing water treatment setup: 1. Big Blue sediment cartridge filter 2. Autotrol 255/762 48K water softener (installed in 2006) 3. Big Blue RFC cartridge filter I confirmed that the treated water is at 0 gpg hardness at all fixtures using a Hach 5B Hardness Test Kit. On the stock pot lid, there is a bare spot. I was able remove some of the spotting build-up with CLR. BUT..............and here is the big BUT............the CLR will NOT clean the sink stoppers that have the spotting on them. The only thing that cleans them is my Never Dull chrome cleaner. NOTE: I was also able to clean additional sections of the stock pot lid with water, vinegar, and Clorox cleaner... I attached pictures of the sink stoppers also showing the spotting accumulation. I had nothing to do with the clean spot in the center of the stoppers....i think it's because the stoppers are slightly rounded, no water sits there, so no spotting accumulates. I also attached pictures of the chrome cover piece for the bathtub overflow. There is some slight spotting there. I usually wipe it down after each shower/bath....but some spots have still accumulated. CLR or vinegar will not remove them.....only the Never Dull chrome cleaner. So, in summary, I'm still at a loss. Thank you in advance for helping. mm

Sue, I didn't say that! Just that you can't do it in NoSquint! I've been off looking and I found one for you. If you're willing to put in an hour's effort to learn to use it and fiddle with it to get what you want, try Color That Site! I think it's Mozilla only, but for people with other browsers, you can check. :) This allows you to change all the colors, including for graphics, text, image, background, etc., on any page, site or domain, and you can toggle back and forth with a few mouse clicks. There's a tutorial, which isn't beautiful to look at, but is very good at explaining what to do while you do it. One thing to know about using Color That Site! to alter GW--there seem to be a whole lot of different whites/light grays in the background. That's most apparent on the listings page though, where the background for the listings is different from the background background, and the icons have different backgrounds, etc. Probably the icons do on the open threads too, but not as patchworky. Summary: This is a very powerful tool that gives you a huge amount of control on a page by page, or site by site, basis, but in being so powerful, it also means that you have to pay more attention to it at the outset.

Mine is a gravy boat full of wine reduction, but made small it also looks like a carnival mask, which I think is a great representation of me. :) FOAS: "Oh yeah they're huge, but we must be big enough for them to have wanted to take us over, no?" Well, we used to be owned by NBC. I thought it was nice that we were going to a smaller company that might not use us as a Bikini Atoll for intrusive advertising testing (dancing baby and green underline style). One thing to remember is that any time you Google a household question, especially for kitchens, bathrooms and appliances, GW dominates the top results. This is new since I joined, and I've only been a member since 2007. They changed some of the ranking criteria. You can't buy that kind of placement. In the last 3-4 years, a trend that started well before that solidified, and people were crossposting between Houzz and GW all over the place. Not in CF (where we don't even seem to cross much with Chowhound), but all over the remodelling forums. It's a natural fit which should drive traffic to Houzz, and give added value to their members. If they can keep the stalwarts after the transition and growing pains, we'll be providing them with tons of top quality content and they only have to pay for the servers and gnomes. Re the background, it depends on your screen. The light gray reads as white on my monitor and iPad. Additionally, there's a lot more white space for the people who have eliminated ads. If you're bothered by glare and use ad blockers, you might try allowing ads for this site. :)