I downloaded Mozilla's Firefox and think its great. I see that there are many extentions that can be downloaded and installed. Does anyone have a favorite that they think a new Firefox user should try or are there any that are a must have. Thanks for any recommendations.

Tricky one this. What are your needs ??? Some people use FX outta the box and never touch an extension, others, like me, only have about 3 or 4 installed at any one time because i use them daily, and if I need something I'll go and get as and when the need arises. Others just stuff the browser full of em and never use half of em :) However there are a couple that most seem to have. So After you've looked at the texturizer help page and edited your config files and read through the tips and tricks and all the other excellent documentation that's online. Oh! and .... then visited the Mozillazine Extensions forum, as well as checking the Mozillazine Firefox general forum. .....and the Mozillazine themes forum. And you've taken a good look at the two places you get extensions from. Mozdev - Extension Room Texturizer.net - Extensions The first one I'd usually suggest is TBE (Tab Browser Extensions) but in Firefox 0.8 I personally don't think it works correctly and it needs updating - although I haven't checked his site in a couple of weeks and it may well have been updated, as an alternative you could try the "lighter" Tabbrowser Preferences. But to be honest you can "practically" get the same effect by installing seperate extensions. Check these threads out at mozillazine (there are more if you look)- Rebuilding TBE's featureset with other plugins, Best tab-related extensions? Next you could manually put this Ad Blocking script in and after, use the Ad-Block extension itself. IE view is good, as is trivial for when you want to customize how Firefox looks. Many of the tabbrowser extensions are likely to be implemented in Firefox as standard by the time it reaches the 1.0 milestone, which imho should have been implemented from it's inception (or near), but hey ...as you will read and find out with the Firefox project, you can't have it all, and bear in mind there is only one primary developer in charge. But best policy as usual, is to just dive in and install one or two and give them a work out and get your feet wet.

Can't say about Firefox, still using Firebird 0.7, probably wait for 0.9 (at least) before changing, really a Mozilla user mainly. There were some conflicts with a few extensions, Googlebar and Quicknote don't (didn't when I installed them to 0.7 anyway) work together, the Googlebar search stopped working. Tabbrowser Extensions and TabPrefs shouldn't be installed at the same time either. I like the Prefbuttons extension and Quicknote also Tabbrowser Extensions (if it isn't borked right now). The Smoothscroll extension is nice too. If you find that Firefox is using a lot of memory/resources put this in your user.js file: // Specify the amount of memory cache in kilobytes: user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 4096); Always restart Firefox between extension or theme installations (also be careful to get themes made for the version you are using).

Leroi, would you recommend using Mozilla instead of Firefox? I didnt download Mozilla because it looked like if you did you had to download the mail program and I think something else-a total package deal. I Just wanted a nice quick trimmed down browser. I'm happy with outlook express. Is it possible to download just the Mozilla browser?

I think you can do a custom install of Mozilla, but Firefox should be an excellent browser for you if you just want a very customizable browser that is fast and light. I use a lot of the features of Mozilla that Firefox lacks, composer, mail etc. and it is also very fast; 1.6 seems slightly faster than Firebird 0.7 on my system, but the difference is negiligible (they both have similar speed tweaks applied). Stick with Firefox, that's what Mozilla is eventually going to become (imo) anyway. You can get extensions that do everything Mozilla can do and I have read that the stand-alone Thunderbird mail client is excellent as well, but I haven't tried it yet. You can have both Mozilla and Firefox installed on the same system and running simultaneously as well.

Another one. If you have a ton of bookmarks and you bothered to categorize links into folders and then alphabetize them in IE and expect them to be the same after their imported into Firefox. They won't be :p You can use, Sort Bookmarks, till they get round to adding that as standard too. Thunderbird is a very good mail client indeed (just don't expect Outlook) and is still in it's infancy and getting better all the time. If you jump on board with it now and are interactive, start using the thunderbird forum, there's an excellent chance that your views and wishes are not only listened to but acted upon (if there sensible or create ideas obviously) And Leroi, check your "my computing.net", scroll down to the bottom of the page, you should have a message.

>>you should have a message.<< Got it, Viking. I always forget to check "my computing.net", but will try to be more diligent. Appreciate it!