Do you have the latest update to Chrome installed? (It was just released yesterday.) That's when my troubles started.
Thanks to all for the suggestions to get away from Chrome. While I've tried Firefox on my phone, I didn't like the look of it. I do have Firefox set as the default browser on my PC but just don't like it on the phone. I'll check on some of the alternative to Chrome for the phone.
FreeRepublic is about as close as you get to text only. If you've got problems here, you've got problems everywhere.