ESS Blocks Firefox at Startup

[Thusband]

On my wireless laptop with XP I have Firefox.exe in the startup folder so it starts at boot up. The ESS firewall seems to block it and I have to refresh to make the connection after ESS loads. Is there a way to either speed ESS up or slow the loading of Firefox?

Thanks,

Tom Husband

[Thusband]

Nobody else seen this problem? I'm at the point where I think I'll go back to Nod32 and look for a separate firewall.