Okay, here's where I get confused.

I now have Verizon DSL and my home page is MSN .

On the top of my computer screen it says Windows Internet Explorer.

For example, now that I am on this website the top of my screen says:

NeuroTalk Communities - Reply to Topic - Windows Internet Explorer

So exactly what would Firefox do for me?

And after I download it, what do I do with it? and would I still have INternet Explorer?

Thanks for taking me through this step by step. I really appreciate this.

And I was able to view the episode of Seaquest when I kept trying. I didn't keep buffering it. So that's why I got so confused.

I didn't think it was my computer.

Thanks so much.
Melody

Internet Explorer is a browser. So is Firefox. So is Opera. Browsers, in a brief nutshell, are programs that let you view web pages.

After downloading Firefox, you can use it to view web pages just like you could with Internet Explorer. You can have both Internet Explorer and Firefox on your computer at the same time. When installing Firefox, it will ask you if you want to import things like your Favorites and Homepage so you get to keep all the web sites you have in your favorites list.

Internet Explorer is bundled into Windows, and was/is one of the reasons all that anti-trust legal action was taken against Microsoft.