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Bob F

wrote:
Some years ago, I was in the bathroom sitting on the toilet when one
of those CFL bulbs began emitting sparks inside the glass fixture. It
died leaving a thick cloud of smelly smoke. About that same moment I
shut off the switch. I replaced it with an incandescent bulb.

If it had not been inside a glass fixture dome, and had I not been
there, it could have started a fire.

If it had not been in that glass fixture dome, it might not have died. They do
say on the package something like "not for enclosed fixtures".