hey Folks, Running FC6 and GNOME. I've tried scratching my head on how to start searching for answers to my problem but I think I lack the proper terms and vocab. This is the problem. 1. I boot my computer (fine) 2. I login with ID and PW 3. Desktop starts to load, but before I see the gnome "loading splash screen" what ever this is called. I get firefox that checks for updates and then opens. I have to then close it manualy. Then Thunderbird starts up and I have to exit that manualy. 4. then the splash come sup with all the little icons that apear as various things load... 5. then I have my desktop. 6. Then I reopen thunderbird (to check e-mail) 7. then I open firefox to surf. 8. continue on with general procrastination. How can I fix the problem of the pre-load issue of firefox and thunderbird. I usualy do RPM's but no RPS'm avail for 2.x of either so I went with tar binaries. I search for boot order and GDM and GNOM and GNOME desktop and display maner etc etc etc... but nothing documenting this behaviour... i tried searching bugs at the mozilla bug pages for both issues and still nothing..... any ideas? Cheers _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list