Dammit! Either way I'm stuffed. What I need is a job that doesn't rely on coffee. Since I'm an Engineer and do software, I think a career change is on the wind...
That may not be such a bad thing. I have had cases where a site (usually associated with hacking) may cause a PC to either lockup or may open so many popups that it's a losing battle to close them all. Killing the process in Task Manager kills the offending window along with all its popups. A new IE window started with the icon, however, will not be killed at this stage. From what you say, Firefox will not operate in this way. (I use Firefox, BTW. Tabs are too handy to go without...)
Oh, and it's good to see World Community Grid running away happily there...