Quite a read, but the only thing I see that might apply to my situation is that I have free Zone Alarm as my firewall. It never caused a problem in the past, but I'm wondering if the latest update has something to do with this. By the way, another recent thread referring to firewalls had some interesting information indicating that ZA might not be such a good choice any more. I tried Comodo and found it nagged too much, but I'm thinking of trying the one a poster on that thread recommended. Since I have a firewall via a router, maybe I'll shut down ZA and try the System Restore. I still like having a software firewall on each computer, however.

I agree...I have also been having issues with Firefox freezing up on websites. I have an extensive computer background and trying to figure out what is going on. This has been a bit of a pain... Casey "Sean McDonagh Racing"

Yahoo does that to me occasionally while they work on the server or page coding ...or do some yahoolagans. Usually doesnt last but half day at most. Sometimes your cookies get stale. Maybe, Sign out of yahoo and delete your yahoo cookies. Then when you sign back in, maybe you'll get lucky. At least you'll get fresh baked goods.

Hi Raven, I have shockwave in IE and in Firefox. I found them in add/remove programs. I downloaded the adobe flash player for IE and Firefox. shockwave player says I can download Slim or full, which one do I choose and is it different from the plain shockwave that is in add/remove programs? I checked out my games and they are playing perfectly in both browsers now. I like playing them better now in Firefox because none of the adds are there that play in between playing the games and I really like that. thirdfrt!!!