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I think I might explore how to stop the browsers from sending out so much info on things that are relatively irrelevant, like system fonts.

Hi, Oceander... When you figure it out, and if it wouldn't be too much trouble, would you kindly summarize what you've found so that all Freepers can make the necessary changes? Again, only if you have the time. I know I sure haven't deciphered it yet and would greatly appreciate a nice, easy to understand primer. Thanks!

I did find an addon for Firefox that should give people some reasonable amount of control over the headers that FF sends out; according to the blog posts by the developer, it works with FF4.

I haven't done any experimentation with it yet, but it does seem to be a reasonably well-developed addon and will almost certainly allow you to modify the silly headers like the system fonts header, which shouldn't cause too much trouble with much of anything (I really cannot think of too many sites that are going to be checking that header to see if they can send you webpages with funky fonts in them).

Also according to the developer of this addon, right now Opera and Google Chrome don't expose the application programming interfaces needed to modify HTTP headers on the fly, although they might in the future.

IE I have no idea about right now; if I come across anything I'll post it up.