Holiday?

It's been more than twenty years, but I still cringe as Mother's Day approaches, knowing how many e-mail messages referencing that day - one I can no longer celebrate - I will receive.

Firefox Follies

Apparently a lot of people are up in arms over the most recent revision (v29.0) of Firefox. I haven't noticed anything troubling about the interface, but something odd seems to have happened to the shutdown procedure: a significant fraction of the time - more than a third, less than a half - the interface shuts down but the process continues. I don't usually find out about this until the next time I try to start the program, at which point I get a message prompting me to open the Task Manager and stop the process.

Has anyone else been having this problem? Is it related to the new update? And, most importantly, is there any way to keep this from happening?