i use AOL Explorer - beta version of it. i love it, the tab browsing is great for it. i also have used FireFox, but liked that browser. Mozilla has a good email client, Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/) and it can be skinned also. it's really easy to use. I have office 2003 so i have full version of Outlook to use if i want

but would rather use thunderbird instead.