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I’ll add my vote for AdBloc Plus. I’ve been using it for years with Firefox. I always update Firefpx to the most current version. Never had any problems with this combination. Wouldn’t be without it.

Thanks to both of you. I checked the subnet masks and both routers were using 255.255.
254.0. I changed mine to 255.255.253.0 and so far so good. In the past, I would lose internet connectivity after a day or 2. If that happens, I’ll come back to this thread and update it.

I really appreciate your help. I would have struggled with this without your help.

If you never use wireless, you should also turn off the wireless mode on the router. Most routers have wireless turned on by default. Don’t just turn off the broadcast of the SSID, but disable wireless all together.

Open ‘Task Manager’ and click on the ‘Processes’ tab. Right click the ‘firefox.exe *32’ and then left click on ‘End Process’. It seems to take a few seconds for Firefox to get around to closing this process once you close the application. Or as rel suggests, you can just wait for 15 seconds or so and Firefox will end the process on it’s own.

In the above captioned article, it is suggested to use the red x-box to close suspicious dialogue boxes. Couldn’t a malicious programmer just program the red x-box to run their malware ?

It seems that it would be more prudent to always use the task manager to end the program.

Am I missing something ?