This thread illustrates the difficulty of accounting for strange behavior of an application, when others cannot duplicate the issue. Most Macs are configured similarly for Internet access, and the user is in control of the computer’s software and configuration. In this case, the issue showed up on a library computer, which may well be configured in a different way, and has a software environment unknown to and not controlled by the user. While we didn’t precisely determine the cause of the reported issue (that would take still more specific information), the information that it was a library computer was important.
Like Greg, I’m fortunate to have birds and other wildlife around my log cabin in the woods and hills of Brown County. Every May, I enjoy hearing the haunting calls of whippoorwills after dark. Here’s a picture taken from inside my cabin of a frequent visitor. Is it laughing at me?