On Tue, 25 Dec 2012, Jeff Taylor wrote:

>Oh the connection is definitely stable.  I run web and email servers
>from here with a constant stream of traffic.  On my desktop I'm always
>connected on IRC, plus I can always check any active bittorrents to
>verify my internet connection.  The problem is definitely with Firefox,
>and only with the latest update.  I may just have to dig up the .deb for
>version 15 and revert back for now.

I'm running FF 17.0.1 here -- pushed to me in the Ubuntu updates.  I
vaguely remember some chatter about 'failings' in FF 16 in the forums
on Webmaster World -- but I do not remember the exact problems.  The
consensus there, tho', was the upgrade to FF 17 cleared all that up.

Jonesy