---
 src/man.c |   22 ++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- src/man.c
+++ src/man.c	2015-05-28 10:54:07.961519305 +0000
@@ -1847,16 +1847,6 @@ static void format_display (pipeline *de
 			if (!status)
 				break;
 		}
-		if (!candidate) {
-			if (html_pager && *html_pager)
-				error (CHILD_FAIL, 0,
-				       "couldn't execute any browser from %s",
-				       html_pager);
-			else
-				error (CHILD_FAIL, 0,
-				       "no browser configured, so cannot show "
-				       "HTML output");
-		}
 		free (browser_list);
 		if (have_old_cwd && restore_cwd (&old_cwd) < 0) {
 			error (0, errno,
@@ -1864,11 +1854,23 @@ static void format_display (pipeline *de
 			chdir ("/");
 		}
 		free_cwd (&old_cwd);
+		if (!status)
+			sleep(5);	/* firefox runs into background to fast */
 		if (remove_directory (htmldir, 0) == -1)
 			error (0, errno, _("can't remove directory %s"),
 			       htmldir);
 		free (htmlfile);
 		free (htmldir);
+		if (!candidate) {
+			if (html_pager && *html_pager)
+				error (CHILD_FAIL, 0,
+				       "couldn't execute any browser from %s",
+				       html_pager);
+			else
+				error (CHILD_FAIL, 0,
+				       "no browser configured, so cannot show "
+				       "HTML output");
+		}
 	} else
 #endif /* TROFF_IS_GROFF */
 	/* TODO: check format_cmd status too? */