Shockwave Flash crashes Chrome browser

Thanks for the response. I stopped using Safari and Firefox a couple of years ago because both browsers crashed regularly, especially when my email or Photobucket were open in the browser; often, those crashes locked my entire computer up, forcing me to "Force Quit" the browsers if I could access that option (when the computer was locked up and the finder was inaccessible).

I guess I can try the other browsers again, but I'm nervous about them due to past performance issues as noted above.

10.6.8. I'm using an older MacMini and the last time I checked the only OS upgrade available was one of the OSX 10.10.xx versions. At the time, the forums seemed mostly against updating to OSX 10.10.x with an older Mac like mine.

Ooops, I tried that......downloaded the app and only when attempting to use it found out that it won't work on OSX 10.6.8.

Ah, well, I guess I can forgo driving or eating or generally enjoying life for a couple of months and buy a new computer instead.

Thanks for the suggestion, however! The Vivaldi download page with its overview of the application looks pretty nice.

It is a Core 2 Duo MacMini.....

It's been a while, but yes, I have uninstalled and reinstalled Chrome. The info pane for Chrome says it's "up to date", I presume from one of my reinstalls. I'm frustrated enough to try it again.....but it didn't seem to make a difference last time.

I don't think I've tried those "update combos" you recommend, so I'll give them a shot, too, after I try the reinstall of Chrome.

Guess I'll back up the 'puter first of all, then start with the advice given. Thanks!

Oh, here's another interesting predicament: I don't seem to have the ability to "sign out" of my Communities account. The words "Sign out" and my user id are visible at the top of this window, but clicking on or near them has no effect....no "gloved finger" for my cursor, no action whatever when I hover over them or try to click them. Wonder if now I'm just always logged into my account......?!

Mac mini (mid-2010)

I'd like to upgrade from 10.6.8 to El Capitan, but there sure are a lot of people posing questions about loss of functionality when they upgraded to the latest version--which I presume is the only version available to me or anyone else upgrading to El Cap. I'm pretty worried about the leap from such an old version to the "latest and greatest" when there are 13 pages of help requests about upgrading to El Cap.

I use a bunch of software that works okay in Snow Leopard, but some of it doesn't seem to have info available about compatibility beyond OSX 10.7......and that worries me.

Does the Command-R (restore) function work for a return to OSX 10.6.8, should I run into problems with 11.6.xx?

I'm gathering, from lack of info on the download pages, that I can't upgrade to anything except 11.6.xx......no other intermediate versions appear to be available. Is that correct? I can't choose to upgrade only to OSX 9.x.x, for instance?