Let's start with Zone Alarms and remove it, it's a firewall and link scanner. I've had this cause these failures recently and I don't know if it was due to an errant update or what. Once it's removed open IE after a restart, if it says it can't connect click on diagnose problem, if it reports a network stub error tell it to fix the issue and try again. Let  me know if that gets the browsers back up.  Mike
For about a month now or so, after these past newer Windows updates, my Firefox web browser and Internet Explorer web browser suddenly stops working when I'm online.  That happens a few times and I'm sick of it! When that happens I have to restart my computer. What's causing this and what can I do to correct this? I've uninstalled Firefox and reinstalled it, thinking the problem was from their side. No change.  I tried using just Internet explorer but also stops working unexpectedly. I'm using Windows Vista Home Basic, Inspiron 1520.  I think that's all the info. :emotion-9:
Web Browsers crash or whatever the term is ?