check this link here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=246509c933f73d91&hl=en

not sure if that helps. it seems a buggy area of Chrome from other posts I read there.

oh, and for checking how sites look in the various browsers, try this online tool here (I was rather shocked to see how cruddy some of my pages displayed *grrr*): http://browsershots.org/