Yeah....I feel you on the draining bit. Between work (which the hours can be killer sometimes) and planning for school and Staff on mene and family life is pretty full xP
Both Ways have there pluses and minuses. In the past there was a three strikes policy. Basically if you did wrong three times (and this could have even been simple mistakes not related to each other). If you broke the rules 3 times you were permanently banned. And couldn't ever create a new account. So really there are pluses and minuses to both sides.
I just thought it could help on your end, as it suggested a way to modify the current Firefox refresh rate. (Everyone else saying that the older methods to do so were removed in an update)
It is a forum thread in Firefox forums recently talking about Firefox refresh rate, which is what I was told was the reason for the disappearing avatars on Trisphee.