Thanks to the many great comments I got after writing about switching to Mozilla as my browser, I'm now successfully up and running Mozilla Firebird .6, the slimmed-down, browser-only version of Mozilla. I was able to import or copy my bookmarks, cookies, and passwords, so I was able to avoid much of the drudgery of customizing the browser. I followed up on a couple posts which offered advice and cautions about Flash and Shockwave, but without success to date. I will give this a try next week when some of the experts are available via IRC to help. So far my overall experience with Firebird has been quite good, and I'm glad I made the switch.