Greetings Bill, Getting any sleep? Anyway the secure connection has something to do with the HTTPS: security protocol that it seems everybody has gone to. It encrypts everything you transmit and receive to prevent "snooping", or spoofing you to malicious sites (works kinda like the "newer, nicer, simpler IRS". All that encrypting and decrypting takes processor cycles that could be getting to the task of actually taking you where you want to go and displaying what you want to look at. You should be able to disable the feature in your browser settings/preferences under security.
Generally if you type your requested site in the url box at the top of the browser window without the preface www or http, it should just whisk you off to webland without all the hocus-pocus. Your defender antivirus and firewall should be able to filter out invalid certificates anyway, and I would suppose you aren't one of those folks that just clicks on everything that might pop-up warning you about detected malware and free ways to speed up your computer "just because we noticed it"...... nothing on the internet is "free" and if you didn't request it, you shouldn't click-it!.
But then again you might as well be doing something while you're waiting fir the darn thing to connect to our "secure server"...... like a few choruses of "Waiting for the World To Change" by John Mayer?
Take Care Bud;
Doug
"what is this quintessence of dust?" - Shakespeare
