I don't think it is a connection problem, but it's worth looking at I suppose.

There was a setting somewhere in my account setup to enable audio alerts for replies and such. Darned if I can find it this AM.

>I've also been getting incomplete headers or no headers. I think Michel took that to mean that my connection was bad, which is a possibility in my case. What audio alert is that?
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>>Frank, there may be other causes. This is just my own observation. Yesterday, I got an incomplete set of headers in the top frame. This morning, no headers at all. Oddly enough, I did get the audio alert for Replies, which almost never works at login.
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>>>Hmm... I can't remember when last I had a crash/hang of firefox or my PC. I'll leave it for now and see what happens when I get my broadband sorted out (or maybe change providers).