I have recently experienced problems with Chrome, and also with IE, on Win 7. Chrome loads slowly (or dies), and when it does come up, pages load slowly (or die). I am an Admin for a non-profit, and can't login to its website when using Chrome.
On both Chrome and IE, when I try to load a web page, I get a pop-up message at the bottom of the screen asking whether I want to Load or Save a URL (long string), but no matter how I respond, it's unresponsive.
To get around these problems, I downloaded Firefox, have had NO similar problems. I tried re-downloading Chrome, didn't help.
I am thinking of turning off Avast, or even uninstalling it, to see if that resolves the problems.