I can upgrade my Mac, will have to pay, and I worry about messing the OS up; I need to upgrade to the latest if it will take it. I talked to apple tech too far back to remember what they told me.
I looked at that app, it appears safe, will deal with it tomorrow if I can.
How do I disable Flash? Go to Safari>Preferences>Security>uncheck enable plug-ins, ucheck java?, uncheck enable javascript.
Also don't have popup windows blocked, there's a reason for that.
I've been wondering if the pages I visit, they fill them up with adware from places I've visited, they have to collect that crap from servers all over the place, if they are slow, it seems like that could be part of it.
Also I've developed a bad habit of having too many windows open at once, don't use tab browsing. The open windows often have things scrolling, etc., not clean and neat like FR.
I've been making a point to try to remember to close the worst offenders as soon as I'm done with them, local paper, ABC, my ISP news feed has a scroller, and so on.
And thank you. I really appreciate the help. Sometimes I can find it by googling but the thread was just sitting in front of me . . . . .I'll let you know what I've done, have some things to do offline first.
Adobe is now helpful in removing Flash: Uninstaling Adobe Flash Player on Apple Mac Help Page.
Alaska, turn on tabbed browsing right away! Your life will be much simpler, and you can still have multiple windows if you want. Just drag a tab off the current tab bar and it will create its own window!
Get Ad-Block Plus immediately. Use it. Some sites act aggrieved, but you can turn it off on an as needed basis from a menu bar icon, or you can green light certain websites to allow ads. Again it will make things much more pleasant.
The newest Safari browser allows you to silence players on the tab so you don't have to go hunting for what's playing.
“I’ll let you know what I’ve done”
Let me know how it turns out.