I've got all the programs you listed except Mozilla. Is it difficult to replace IE with it? How exactly is this done?
see #31
Just go to Mozilla.org and download Firebird (which might be Firefox now).
Great browser.
Here's my thought on replacing IE.
Download http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
It's not a perfect replacement. If something doesn't format properly or doesn't play right using firefox, just open IE and do it.
Yes, I understand it's a pain in the ass.
It is however how us folks who wish to avoid nonsense do it.
My next suggestion is to get admuncher. Admuncher is a layer 3 program. What's a layer 3? Well, that's a program that essentially filters everything laying over the tcpip stack.
Firefox will remove just about everything, but if you get admuncher, you're going to get all the ads removed as well.
It's like surfing the net was 7 years ago. Pleasant :)
-Mal
Firefox doesn't "replace" IE. You choose which one to run each time you get on the web.
I've pretty much settled in on Firefox, but it's not perfect. NOAA radar sites use that damned Java, so IE still has it's place. Yes, there's a Java "plug-in" that's over 8 megs and it's unstable as all get out. Firefox was crashing almost all the time until I removed Java. And those crashes emptied the cache every single time. Sort of a pain for dialup users.
Go to mozilla.org and get firefox, you'll laugh out loud at the speed when u compare it to IE.....Been using mozilla and now firefox for some time and there is NO comparison..