Stability Problems

Some applications - firefox in particular - are having stability problems following the failover to a single server. I'm working on alleviating the symptoms as well as the root of the problem but in the meantime I have a couple of suggestions for minimizing frustration ...

• instead of firefox, use epiphany (see the Internet menu) or opera (opera at command line or Alt-F2)
• instead of thunderbird, open a terminal window and run pine to read email