After much research and assistance from this forum's participants, I have come to understand that ALL of the discussion pertaining to hotfixes to enable the Norton Toolbar in FF and IE 9 assumes that one will use the 32-bit versions of the browsers rather than the 64-bit versions. Support for 64-bit browsers is not now, nor, I am told, planned to be available in Norton products. As 64-bit plug-ins and extensions are in short supply, this is not CURRENTLY much of a problem if you need the missing add-ons. But what about speed and performance?
It just seems that memory/processor intensive tasks like downloading or playing streaming video would benefit from the extra data transfer capability to match my Xenon processor, 24 GB of RAM, and 64-bit OS. Is there ever going to be support for 64-bit browsers?
And that brings up one more question that occurred to me: since 32-bit windows 7 can only access and use 3-4 GB of RAM, when running 32-bit apps on the 64-bit OS, is the extra 20 GB of RAM used at all? I understand that the use of RAM is determined by the OS, but if the input is in 32-bit format, does this limit the usefulness or "dumb down" the OS's use of available RAM?
Kengrush