I'm in Firefox..Yeah!!

I really like it - thanks, Microsoft and Bill, for giving me the option. But one major query...
I use Internet Banking, so do I need to do anything to make Firefox more secure?

Nope. I use FF and do internet banking, no problems.

There are a couple of add-ons of those I use that may be of benefit.

Adblock Plus
British English Dictionary

Thanks. I notice that when I click on a link (in an email for example) it still opens in IE. Is there any way of telling it to open links in Firefox? I assume that I need to make Firefox my default browser, but I haven't done that yet as I've heard that there's a conflict issue.

Conflict with what? The only thing I know that insists on using IE is Windows Update, I can live with that.

FF has been my default browser for 2 years or more IIRC. When I rebuilt my PC late last year, as soon as I'd installed FF I made it my default.

Set FF to default, you can always change if need be.

Agree entirely with cheshire_man. I haven't had IE as my default for at least 3 years now if not longer. As you say Windows Update insisting on using IE I can live with.

Certainly no conflicts in all that time.

Sorry, I read that if you have Firefox open and then open IE there can be problems. I've been doing it and both seem happy to work together. One thing I've noticed is that Firefox insisted on me downloading the very latest version of Flash before it would play embedded video, wheras IE was happy with the older version. Remind me how to make Firefox default whilst keeping IE on my machine. Does Automatic Updates still work OK if Firefox is the default?

Use FF as default: for me its under Tools|Options|Advanced|General - but I don't have the latest version, and I note that they're apt to change places for these settings.

More often than not this is a question you needn't ask since if the bank are unhappy with Firefox then they will block it from being used to access their system.

Does Automatic Updates still work OK if Firefox is the default?

Yes.

In reply to a post by dandnsmith:

Use FF as default: for me its under Tools|Options|Advanced|General - but I don't have the latest version, and I note that they're apt to change places for these settings.

It's still there in FF3.6