Firefox 3 a good little article to read on some of the new stuff in firefox 3 and also how to change the address bar back to the old style if you prefer it to the new style. Ultimate List of Firefox 3 Tips and Tricks it is a very good idea to back up your bookmarks file and your profile file before moving from one version to the next major version such as from 2 to 3. That link has some good info on just how to do those backups. I keep copies of my bookmark file in several locations because I have a lot of bookmarks I would not want to loose. I have it on cd, on an online backup site and as a file saved on my computer.

Maybee your IE is still there and you can use it at any time even with firefox open they work fine together, all you do is just click on the big blue IE icon on your desktop and it will open your IE browser do the same for firefox just click the firefox icon and it will open firefox. Which ever one you want to use you just click it's button. If you have the firefox icon on the desktop you can just grab it with your mouse hold down the button and drag the icon down there to the quick launch bar where your other icons are then let go and it should create a new icon for you down there too. When you want to go to the windows update site to get any windows updates you will have to do that using your IE browser because Microsoft will not accept firefox. That is the only place I ever use my IE now, I use firefox for everything else. This will not at all affect your Windows updates if you have them set to do automatically or to notify you. Only if you want to go to the actual windows update webpage then you need to click on your IE icon and use it. Your windows update notifier is not tied to your browser at all so this will not change that at all you will still see that update notifier the same as before. To do any updates for firefox itself it will occasionally check automatically for updates and if it finds some it will pop up and tell you that it has found an update for your firefox or for any add ons you may have then you click ok to let it do the updates, it will then tell you it has to restart firefox (not the whole pc just firefox) say ok and it will shut down firefox then re-open it and the updates will be installed automatically. Have you managed to get your home page set up on firefox now? If not what you need to do is just go to the webpage that you want to use as your home page, for example if you wanted to use this forum, while you are on the website here you would click up top tools> options then on the main tab there you will see where you have the options for setting your home page, just select the one that says use current page, that will set the page you are currently on as your home page, anytime you want to change it just go to the page you want to set and do the same thing again. You will want to in that same Options box click on the tabs tab and in there make sure these are selected, new pages should be opened in a NEW TAB then there are 4 options below that and you want to make sure the top 3 are selected. If you need to change the font type or the size of the fonts on the pages you can change that in Options >content tab When you want to clear your cache on firefox you go to Options> privacy then at the bottom is your option to clear the cache, when you click that it gives you more options/settings on exactly what you want it to clear, I always have mine clear cache and download history. you can also clear the cache by clicking on Tools > clear private data. Once you get the hang of firefox and start trying some of the wonderful add ons that are available for it you will wonder why you did not try it sooner.

flyleft - it defaults to St. Louis on first load, but once you change it to search it should stick with what you picked (unless you load the page up fresh again). I created http://clshelper.com/ ( I recently changed it slightly to help it be more mobile friendly... new domain name from pixel spot light and less bulk ) If you have any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it... I will work quickly to fix / implement any changes you desire. Please send me an email to admin@pixelspotlight.com Here is a link that might be useful: clshelper.com

They've been doing all kinds of awful intrusive ads forever. Check your browser settings. You may be able to disallow them. Or you can get Firefox with the Ad Blocker Plus add-on, and make most web ads of all kinds disappear. I used to happy to have ads since they supported the content I love and don't want to pay for, but they got so annoying on GW I got ABP and life is so much more pleasant. (I don't get the clickables either...)