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When it doesn't connect, it basically hangs at Controls Initialized, as expected. (Minimally, there should be a timeout set here and maximally this should be done in a separate thread so that Windows doesn't barf on it...)

A more interesting experiment has been to set direct connection in the java control panel. It would appear that Minion *completely* ignores that, which is sort of unexpected and, IMO, very bad behavior.

Setting the default browser to something not Firefox (such as Chrome), works as well.

(I really wish Windows had jstack so that I could see what the stack trace looks like. There is likely an equivalent, but I don't do my Java development on Windows so not sure what that would be.)