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Hi folks. I take your points about themes Greg and FliGi7. However this problem was there before I had any theme applied. In fact, if I recall, it was happening before and after my last clean install.
Also, as I say, immediately after running SFC/scannow, the theme was disabled and the problem was still there.
When I reapplied the patch, the theme became active again but the problem was not there for at least two days. I thought that SFC/scannow had somehow fixed things. However, after a couple of days, running the theme with no issues, the browser problem recurred as bad as ever.
In fact, when I think about it this problem has been happening since the invite only beta for Google+ (March 2011?), and it only seems to occur in G+, although that might just seem so because it's virtually the only place I do any typing at the moment. I believe I had another thread, or joined an existing one, about this issue over a year ago and it was unresolved then.
As Julian Boohbah says, he (and many others) are using this patch and themes from this site without issues.
Nonetheless I will do as you suggest Greg and do a fresh install when I have saved for another drive to put my image files on.
My preference for Chrome is purely related to the fact that it displays G+ the best of all the browsers and has more functionality in it. Not really surprising. However, as I already mentioned, I tried Firefox latest version as my first alternative and that had exactly the same problem as Chrome.
It does not happen at all in Opera (latest version) and this seems strange to me. I'm perfectly happy continuing with Opera, it's a nice enough browser and does everything I need. It's the niggling worry that I cannot resolve this strange issue in Chrome and Firefox that is annoying me.
I can carry on perfectly ok, using Opera for the time being, until I can get a new drive. I'll then do a re install with no theme and see if the problem remains. I suspect it will.
Thanks very much for your input folks, much obliged, John