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