Firefox is pretty much Mozilla without the HTML editor, e-mail client, and something else but I forgot. Opera is pretty good. I use both Opera and Firefox, and Opera is becoming my favorite. It's just very customizable. Firefox is probably easier to use though, and you might check out Thunderbird for e-mail too, while you are at it. It's alot like Outlook Express, just without all of the security hazards. All the plugins should work with Opera, but some are a bit harder to make work. Not difficult, but you just have to copy a couple files. And Opera comes with Java. Opera will also work with some pages that say they only work with IE, because Opera reports itself as IE as default. Anyways, Firefox will probably be easier if you aren't wanting to dick with stuff.