I can’t stress enough the abilities you will discover if you download and use the Firefox web browser … I look at my site here and notice the differences immediately from MSIE … I have learned to respect the RFCs that the Internet was built and wonder why the people writing web browser software over at Microsoft don’t pay attention to them … If they did, and added their proprietary crap on top, their browser would probably dominate … but Firefox is growing steadily running on all platforms and standards compliant … Firefox has tabbed browsing and a lot of nifty configurables for your web browsing pleasure … It also has many plugins that aid in web development as well as enhancements to web browsing …
I have also switched to Thunderbird for my email client … right out of the box my inbox is much safer from external links that are loaded automagically by other MUAs …