It makes me crazy to have to wait. I'm not a patient woman. I'm just not.
I'm also a multi-tasker. There is seldom a time when I have less than a dozen processes going at once. So, when my FireFox is all locked up because I hit a link that, unknown to me, is a PDF, because I failed to check the URL at the bottom of my screen when hovering over a link... I get a wee bit antsy.
I've found a few ways to help curtail that frustration for fellow FireFox users: