Tech Q&A: Why a game freezes on Chrome and Edge, but not Firefox

Why haven't you had the same browser slow-down problem on your other PCs? You may not have used those browsers long enough to accumulate a lot of old files, or you may not have downloaded extensions for them. — Photo by John Schnobrich on Unsplash

Q: I'm having trouble with an online Bridge card game that runs in the browser of my Windows 10 Pro PC. I used Google Chrome for a long time without problems, but now Bridge freezes at the point in the game where I "bid." The same thing happens with the Microsoft Edge browser. For some reason, the Bridge program works when I use the Mozilla Firefox browser. I've checked the PC for malware and Windows problems but found nothing. The problem seems limited to this PC; Bridge works fine on three other PCs that use the Chrome browser. Also, I've noticed the PC's cursor and keys respond slowly when I type a Gmail message. What's wrong?

— Richard Flipp, Little Canada, Minnesota