Ill make this one quick. I use Firefox. I use it for a few reasons.

• Native Binary
• Flash works great now
• A few useful random plugins
• Vimperator -- This keeps me from switching. Period.

I have kept my eye on midori but I basically won't use another browser that doesn't have some sort of vimperator plugin. Its just too convenient.

Firefox Installation

Easy as just using pkg_add. I'm using snapshot packages (with my binary system snapshots), so I have version 3.x of Firefox. You're going to want >= 3.x if you want to use vimperator and flash properly.

# sudo pkg_add mozilla-firefox

Vimperator

If you don't like or use vi then you probably wont enjoy this. If you are enlightened, in which case you are already a vi user, then you will love this. Installation is easy as well. go to the vimperator website and install the plugin, restart, done.

Flash

To give proper credz, I'll just link to the instructions. Please visit here to get going.

One thing is that nspluginwrapper's rpm2cpio dependency conflicts with fedora bas's rpm. All you need to do is comment out the following line in the Makefile of the nspluginwrapper.

BUILD_DEPENDS+=    :rpm2cpio-*:converters/rpm2cpio

This gets rid of the rpm2cpio pkg dependency as the rpm pkg has this functionality already. Have fun!

Fonts

I dont mind the default fonts, but some pages really want the Microsoft fonts. Just do the following to install them.

# cd /usr/ports/x11/msttcorefonts
# make install clean

And add the following line to your fonts paths in your xorg.conf:

/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/mscorefonts

After that, the rest is up to you. get your other plugins and get to it!

Killing Cookies

I don't like cookies from sites that just hand them out when I dont need them. I only accept them on sites that I need them to login. I disable 'accept cookies from sites' in Firefox preferences and then install Cookie Monster and just enable them on sites that I need them on.

There is also a nasty trend of sites using flash cookies. You can clean them (via the browser), they can be up to 100k (default) instead of your normal 4k cookie size and personally. I just dont like flash doing anything but showing me some video and letting me listen to music on last.fm. To stop this from happening we can just set the permission on these directories non-writeable. Easy enough