I find that the combination of Chrome / Win 10 Pro / BitDefender to be the Typhoid Mary of workstation computing. A pox on all of them.
It is almost as if Chrome is nudging its users into switching to Edge. Fortunately, Firefox still works.
Because I mostly test using non-bleeding edge tech workstations I notice that a handful of applications are consuming more and more cycles yet for all the updates, there is little or no increase in usable functional productivity.
I have noticed this sort of behaviour previously, usual shortly before a big-step upgrade.