windows 7 issues with web sites

[sciencemagic]

Hans,

Thanks for your reply. When I open extensions, it shows nothing listed. So, I presume I must have already disabled them if in fact I did. When I open plug-ins, it shows about a half dozen of them. But, on all of them except one, it shows ask to activate. So, I presume they are not activated unless I am prompted to do so? It does show one that says always activate, and that one is Shockwave Flash, and I just updated that one to the latest version (a few minutes ago) because it advised to do so because of problems with the old version. But, I believe the old version wasn't being used, because my system was not allowing it to be used? What about all the asked to be activated plug-ins, Hans? Again, I presume they are not being activated until I do so, or our asked to be activated? Nonetheless, there are about a half dozen of them.

[HansV]

The ones saying Ask to Activate will not run unless you explicitly allow them to, so they aren't the cause of the slowness either.

[sciencemagic]

Hans,

What about my security protection vendor, Microsoft Security Essentials? Could that be a source of a problem? How could I temporarily turn it off?
Also, I just installed Google Chrome. But I'm unable to see the menu bar at the top like I do with either I.E. or Firefox. How do I set up Chrome to see that menu bar, Hans? Thank you.

[HansV]

Microsoft Security Essentials is a very unobtrusive security program, it has very little overhead, and I wouldn't recommend turning it off.

Google Chrome doesn't have a menu bar. It has a menu button instead, in the upper right corner of the window, below the Close button. It looks like three horizontal lines:

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[PaulB]

Also known as 'the hamburger'...

[HansV]

Chrome - I'm loving it?

or

Chrome - Home of the Whopper?

[PaulB]

[Rudi]

Strange....my version of Chrome has always had a hamburger for settings. (Do you think my Chrome is fried?)

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[HansV]

Mine looks slightly different - it's really fried:

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[Rudi]

I'd have thought your button could have been a combo box.