Chrome Problem: Was having lots of problems with malicious pop ups, slow internet browsing and having to click on anything with flash player to open it. Several blue screen crashes as...

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

Was having lots of problems with malicious pop ups, slow internet browsing and having to click on anything with flash player to open it. Several blue screen crashes as well. Switching from Chrome to Internet Explorer solved the problem. Anyone else experience this?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

sodapop wrote:

Was having lots of problems with malicious pop ups, slow internet browsing and having to click on anything with flash player to open it. Several blue screen crashes as well. Switching from Chrome to Internet Explorer solved the problem. Anyone else experience this?

Sounds familiar, but it was just the opposite with me. Chrome made browsing much more stable. With the Pop-Up Blocker, I got no pop-up ads. I prefer it's interface to IE.

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

Surprising, if your going to run IE make sure you Anti Virus is up to date, every time I run IE I get attacked

insman1132 Loc: Southwest Florida

You might check to see of adblockplus.org works with Chrome. I find it very effective for IE.

dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl

sodapop wrote:

Was having lots of problems with malicious pop ups, slow internet browsing and having to click on anything with flash player to open it. Several blue screen crashes as well. Switching from Chrome to Internet Explorer solved the problem. Anyone else experience this?

I used to like chrome and Mozilla but both seem to be less friendly now. I use firefox only as a backup now since it does not allow access to certain setup areas that I can get to easily in explorer. Chrome drives me nuts and I uninstalled it because of it's allowing google adds regardless of you answer to any popup or other questions in setup. It is also on my cell phone and constantly trying to bookmark everything. I have uninstalled Chrome and firefox 3 or 4 times each in order to get rid of tool bars that they seem to want. And yes, I have antivirus protection and use several mal-ware programs which I keep updated. This is not to say that Explorer is better or that they are worse, just that they make management of their add ons etc more difficult.

davidheald1942 Loc: Mars (the planet)

sodapop wrote:

Was having lots of problems with malicious pop ups, slow internet browsing and having to click on anything with flash player to open it. Several blue screen crashes as well. Switching from Chrome to Internet Explorer solved the problem. Anyone else experience this?

yes, I have. I now use IE exclusively. I have tried them all and keep going back to IE.
ronny

ottopj Loc: Annapolis, MD USA

Over the years, I've had nothing but trouble with IE. I used to use both Chrome and Firefox but now use Chrome exclusively.

I strongly recommend adblock for everyone. It has completely eliminated pop-ups for me. It's free. You pay what it's worth to you.

I tried it and then went back a week later and paid $25. I may go back and pay more. It's fabulous!

https://adblockplus.org/

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

Thanks for the replies. Chrome worked great for me for years. Then it "fell apart" Phones calls to Norton no help, their advice made it worse (at the time I had not discovered that switching browsers would be an answer.) HP wanted $99 to talk as my computer was 2 months past warranty. No help from other forums such as Google or Adobe. (Shoud have come to UHH first!)
Anyway, working OK now with IE, no jumping slowness or having to click the grey jigsaw puzzle piece screen to open quick time every time.

SpeedyWilson Loc: Upstate South Carolina

I rarely use IE, Firefox, or Chrome ...

I use Opera almost exclusively ....

http://www.opera.com/

For a very few stubborn e-commerce sites, I'll use Firefox to complete any transactions.

Davimack Loc: West Vancouver, Canada

Yes, endless problems. Advised to use Adblock Plus. Free download. Cured the problem. Hope it helps.

PaulR01 Loc: West Texas

Chrome is totally open for cookie storage. I run enigma spy hunter 4 daily an pull 100 to 200 spy bots off my computer. Lately Chrome has left the door open. I am seriously considering going back to Fire Fox. I went to Chrome because it was running faster.

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

And now Chrome wont uninstall. Close all windows including those in windows ? What the heck does that mean? I rebooted and that did not help

davidheald1942 Loc: Mars (the planet)

sodapop wrote:

And now Chrome wont uninstall. Close all windows including those in windows ? What the heck does that mean? I rebooted and that did not help

I didn't have any trouble un-installing chrome about a month ago. I went to "control panel" then "un-install a program" and found it, and then right clicked it and then clicked on "uninstall".
Then I went to the folder in the system tray and clicked on "downloads" and found it there also. I just right clicked on it and deleted it.
It worked for me.
ronny

JimBart Loc: Western Michigan

Always delete Google chrome

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

I says cannot delete because I get a message when I click on uninstall there are "windows" still using it and they have to be deleted first then "Try again". Have no idea what "windows" they are talking about and how to delete them. Going to the control panel right clicking to uninstall produces this reason and it will not uninstall. Anyone know how to get around this? It simply won't uninstall using this normal uninstall procedure.