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As it's specifically about AB I thought Ed's blog was the right place. It's not volatile. I can't help that it went briefly off topic. It's a Dell laptop, Win7. I use Chrome but also have IE8 which is useless for AB I find. Constantly freezing. All these problems are only on AB. I don't know what CNET is. Haven't downloaded anything recently.
I only got Chrome because of the advice on here when AB just won't work on IE for me. All other sites are fine.