Once again NewMexiKen encourages you to consider Mozilla Firefox as your browser. As the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg puts it:
I suggest dumping Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser, which has a history of security breaches. I recommend instead Mozilla Firefox, which is free at www.mozilla.org. It’s not only more secure but also more modern and advanced, with tabbed browsing, which allows multiple pages to be open on one screen, and a better pop-up ad blocker than the belated one Microsoft recently added to IE.
The newest release of Firefox also allows you to create RSS bookmarks (Live Bookmarks)!
I’ve switched to Firefox (and Thunderbird for email). I like them a lot. However, Firefox is slower to load than IE and bringing it up from the background after being idle for a while is slow.
Take a look at the Sage extension, which turns RSS feeds into a sidebar and creates a nicely formated page from RSS — I like it more than the new RSS bookmarks.
Also recommended: open this page in ie, quicknotes, statusbar clock, foxytunes, download manager tweak, and the developer’s webtools. All these great extensions are a big part of the appeal.
peace,
mjh