DA, watch that thinking while eating lunch...it's bad for the digestion! However it is much appreciated. Below are the answers to your questions. 1. Have you tried FF bare boned with not add-ons to see if this occurs? Ans. Yes 2. Have you tried a prior version of FF? Ans, Yes, just a few minutes ago. I un-installed ver 11.0 and installed the older 10.0.2 in it's place. I also un-installed Flash Player and re-installed that again. ...still the same results after shutting down and re-starting! 3. Do you have FF set to delete history when closing? Ans, No. Thanks, Horton.

I don't support having to shut down the AV particularly when notified to do so by a pop-up. Too many bad things can happen. I have for years upgraded versions of Adobe Shockwave and both Flash Players (IE and non-IE), and never had to shut down my AV. There have been several Flash upgrades recently in a short period of time, and a new Release Candidate for IE v10.3.181.5 is now being offered. I can only warn, if you get any popup telling you to turn off your AV regardless of the focus application don't. Research the offering by going to the manufacturer's homepage or a trusted download site, CNET, Filehippo, Major Geeks just to name a few. Finally, after doing your homework, and if you still have doubt come here. Again, when it comes to turning off your AV you cannot ever be overly cautious. DA

pkPonder. Thanks for replying to email. I'll take a look. I have my privacy settings straight I think. It took a while to understand and I also have a friend who announces new threats that FB has put upon our safety. I have not changed to messenger and know others have used it for awhile and wanted me to. Why? My bank credit card was used by an owner of a restaurant who had my receipt from the week before. The man wiped me out without swiping it or getting my signature. Yeah, I have gone after him. My bank investigators got him right away - when I notified them. It is disturbing in many ways. I caught him also swiping it twice and one of those swipes had no signature. It went thru my bank. Scary. Privacy is uncertain anywhere. Pay with cash some say. Need documentation for some things like overcharging. Thanks, Mary for the adblocker info. No, I didn't know I could do that. It is great news to know the site online I looked at shoes yesterday won't show up on FB the next day. I am a student to all of you and do listen. I come back here to just read. Also on FB there are come-ons within the postings. One yesterday shouted "Would you like to know more about your neighbor?" and a link. There were hundreds of people who responded with a resounding NO. FB lets us learn hard lessons on our own while counting the cash they made off of the deceitful people. I detest it but use it to keep up with friends - like everyone else. Next up I will ask u all how to get my "downloaded to PC" IOS pics and videos landing in the right direction and do I have the right software and other hard stuff to easily send them to FB and other places. I think most of you are Android users. But I will wait and let you digest the conundrums I have place on you so far.

yea that is what I thought. Honestly you probably don't want that desktop search one, my husband accidentally got that one on his work pc and it stopped him from doing his work because it took forever for it to scan the entire pc and catalog it so that it was all available for the desktop search. Any that are not critical are up to the individual.