[SpywareDr]

"Find the Copy icon and drag it up to say between the Home and Printer icon on the Navigation Toolbar."

I did it, even put the Paste icon there. Who knew???

Me, and hundreds-of-thousands of others I'm sure.

Spend some time exploring Firefox and you'll find all kinds of kewl stuff.

"You can set your homepage to anything you like."

I do not especially like Yahoo, too much advertising. But I have no idea what other page to set as my homepage. Is there such a thing as a Google homepage?

iGoogle
http://www.google.com/ig

iGoogle is your personalized Google page. Add news, photos, weather, and stuff from across the web to your page.

Well SpywareDr, you have really helped me and explained "how-to-do" in easy to understand language. I will be back with more questions but for now I am good-to-go.

You're more than welcome. Have Fun!

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I downloaded Thunderbird, so I could get a new email address. No matter what I tried I could not set up a New Account(email address) for myself. What did I do wrong?

Nancy

When you sign-up with an ISP, (Internet Service Provider), you are normally assigned at least one email account. You can then use an email client (program) such as Thunderbird, (or Outlook, or Outlook Express, or Windows Mail, or Windows Live Mail, etc.), to access this ISP-assigned email account.

Wikipedia: Webmail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webmail

Wikipedia: E-mail Client
http://en.wikipedia....i/E-mail_client

[SpywareDr]

I downloaded Thunderbird, so I could get a new email address. No matter what I tried I could not set up a New Account(email address) for myself. What did I do wrong?

Nancy

When you sign-up with an ISP, (Internet Service Provider), you are normally assigned at least one email account. You can then use an email client (program) such as Thunderbird, (or Outlook, or Outlook Express, or Windows Mail, or Windows Live Mail, etc.), to access this ISP-assigned email account.

Wikipedia: Webmail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webmail

Wikipedia: E-mail Client
http://en.wikipedia....i/E-mail_client

[tofu5]

iGoogle is now my homepage for Firefox, I like it. No advertising, easy to maneuver. I even have a gmail address. I have not been able to figure out Thunderbird, as our internet service is from a satellite dish but I suppose that really does not matter, as I have plenty of other accounts. Thanks again.

Nancy

[SpywareDr]

You're more than welcome.

[tofu5]

SpywareDr,
I just did a scan with AVGFree and it came up with 101 warnings, which turned out to be all from Firefox tracking cookies. Is this anything to be concerned about?

Nancy

[Hello71]

One thing... Yahoo Mail 'America', the regular version, does not support POP3 or SMTP, both of which are required for an external email client, like Thunderbird. Both Yahoo Mail 'Plus' and Yahoo Mail Canada do, so there is your answer. Not sure about other Yahoo domains.

Tracking cookies are completely normal. They originate more or less from the websites you visit, same as with IE. You may have IE configured to reject tracking cookies (or cookies), which is probably the reason why they are not showing up. Delete them, don't delete them, it's a matter of personal preference.

[SpywareDr]

SpywareDr,
I just did a scan with AVGFree and it came up with 101 warnings, which turned out to be all from Firefox tracking cookies. Is this anything to be concerned about?

Nancy

http://www.windowsse...om/comp/070419/

Cookies are just ASCII text files created via your browser by Web sites you visit. Some cookies are very useful, storing login information for the Web sites you frequent, the date of your last visit (so the site can flag newer information for you), your favorite search terms, and so on. These cookies are worth saving. Other cookies really only benefit Web advertisers, and can be deleted with no negative consequences to you. But how do you tell which cookies are which?

Because cookies are plain text files, they can be opened and read with Notepad. Even so, the data stored inside a cookie may not be very easy to figure out.

That's where a tool like Karen Kenworthy's free Cookie Viewer can help. Cookie Viewer works with Internet Explorer and Firefox cookies, and presents all of a cookie's data in a comprehensive but easy-to-understand way. You can see when the cookie was created, by whom, when it expires, and more. The program also lets you delete any cookies you don't want.

http://www.karenware...ls/ptcookie.asp

[tofu5]

I can see how some cookies could be useful, I just clicked on Firefox and it took me to iGoogle but to see my homepage I had to sign in. I assume that with a cookie I would not have to sign in.
I will not go in and try to read cookies, I deleted something once in the computer years ago, thought I knew what I was doing, and I did not know what I was doing. I now work with what I have, trying to tweak it a bit by visiting this site.

Nancy

[SpywareDr]

I just clicked on Firefox and it took me to iGoogle but to see my homepage I had to sign in. I assume that with a cookie I would not have to sign in.

Probably. It also may have one of those "[ ] Stay signed in" boxes that need's to be checked before it'll save a cookie.