I'm experiencing a big, bad bug only with Google Chrome. I have all the Helvetica fonts installed on my Windows 7 computer. (Helvetica, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica Neue LT, and so on.. it's like more than 50 different styles of Helvetica).
However, when I visit a web page using Helvetica Neue, my fonts get mad, as the following screenshot shows: 
This is instead what I can see with Firefox, the font is much cleaner: 
I tried uninstalling all of the fonts named Helvetica-something, even using Unlocker because the system wouldn't let me delete them, then reinstalled them all. Nothing absolutely changed on Chrome.
Any help in order to resolve this problem?
Answer
Scott Hanselman has written that installing Helvetica Neue Fonts with Google Chrome on Windows considered harmful:
However, Helvetica is super common font that is mentioned in Stylesheets - often explicitly when CSS is designed on a Mac - and Arial on Windows usually steps in as the replacement on Windows.
The Helvetica Neue font that I installed for my presentation is very poorly hinted (if at all) at small sizes like the one's being used. It's just not a Web Font, and while it's great for the giant sizes I needed for my talk, it's lousy for the web.
Both IE and Chrome were picking up that my system had a Helvetica available on the system and used it instead. The Stylesheet said "hey, gimme Helvetica" and the browser said "Cool, here's one."
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