I really like firebird. There are many people working on it's development & add-ons you can download or not. I often have 5-10 tabs open in the one browser & the affect on puter resources is negligble. Having this many I.E. windows open would crash my puter. Ed From: "John Bird" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Couple of points about Firebird > -There are two flavours - Mozilla browser which is basically the same as = > the > later versions of Netscape, and includes all of the addons such as mail > programs etc - quite large, and Mozilla-firebird which is a browser = > only, > compact and the one that a lot of people really like. It is currently = > at > version 0.7, not even version 1.0 yet, but is already very good abd = > stable. > -I am a fan of it as it is relatively small compared to IE and Mozilla. > Probably an Opera killer. > -No install required - just unzip the download file into a folder and = > run > the file MozillaFirebird.exe --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.545 / Virus Database: 339 - Release Date: 11/27/03 Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.