(1) FIREFOX
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
Firefox is always the defacto browser I stick into the PC's I help to install, and the one I always recommend to family & friends.
Once you've got Firefox installed, the list of add-ons (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/) you can use is amazing.
Some recommendations:
- Adblock Plus: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865 (block ads, what else?)
- Forecastfox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/398 (weather forecasts)
- FoxClocks: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1117 (world clocks)
- Chinesepera-kun: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3349 (Chinese text dictionary-on-the-fly)
- Rikaichan - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2471 (Japanese companion of the Chinesepera-kun)
- Gmail Notifier - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/173 (checks your GoogleMail for new messages)
- iMacros - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3863 (record macros; automate mundane tasks in your browser)
- FoxyProxy - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2464 (quickly/automatically switch proxy settings, e.g. when you switch from office to home network)
- StumbleUpon - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/138 (discover web sites, and waste your life away browsing...)
- ReminderFox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1191 (reminders...)
- IETab - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419 (use the IE browser engine to open a web page... inside the Firefox browser hahahaha - so you'll never need to click on the IE icon at all... useful for those sh*t websites coded by sh*t webmasters who create them only for use with IE).
As you can see; a lot of stuff that used to need small programs installed on the PC have not given way to little add-ons installed on my browser. Any wonder why M