[zeugma]

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.

[Cicero]

I'm an Internet Explorer fan. I used Netscape from the time of the initial betas, but I gave up on it.

To speed up loading of IE, you just set "About:Blank" as your home page.

To block ads and popups seamlessly, and also save a great deal of time loading pages that have ads on them, I use Ad Muncher. There's a small price for it, but it's a brilliant program, and it blocks the ads before they download.

[RobRoy]

Great idea, but I noticed that it only includes the default bookmarks that come with Firefox. It does not reflect what is really in your bookmarks.

I opened it in wordpad and noticed I could hack the HTML to reflect the contents of my bookmarks, but that seems to be about the only way I can find to let it reflect where I really want to go.