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Before I heard of Firefox, I took a one year subscription to Stopzilla, which is advertized to block popup's which were driving me crazy. Stopzilla keeps a running count of blocks so you can review them before clearing. I just checked and it had effectively blocked 224 popups between December 7 and this morning, so it really does work.
I have been using Firefox only for the past two weeks and it's hard to really be sure of it's claims since many protection safeguards work in the background. It does seem to work faster than Netscape or IE but it takes me a click or two more to get to my e-mail. The Firefox "homepage" isn't very jazzy but, one of the reasons that I switched to them was that I was fed up with the Netscape "news" summary which seemed to me to be slightly left of center and anti Bush in tone. They can go preach to the converted - I've stopped buying.

Regarding the homepage set by the browser, I have a suggestion to you that will help speed up the startup of your browser. What I do, rather than have my "homepage" set to a website, is I set it to my bookmarks.html file. That way, when I fire up my browser, I get a clean white page with my bookmarks on it. Since it doesn't have to go out to the net to fetch anything, It helps startup quite a bit. It's also convienient in that when I open a new tab, I can click the "home" button, and *poof* my bookmarks are there.

I set my homepage to Google.com rather than my ISP's internet service home page (with all the clutters). They don't put news on the homepage (yet), and it's reasonable clean as far as web pages go.