hit 57 there is no favorite tab when you nav to a site you like right click the mouse hit bookmark when it pops up page book marked hit done and when you want to go back to the site hit bookmarks in the top tool bar go to recently bookmarked and hit the site you want to go to,or just scan down the bookmarks that are below the recently bookmarked line and hit which ever one you want to navigate to or you can go to most visited in the top toolbar and nav from there,and leave ie on your computer there are some prograns that will not work without it in the c drive,besides more then one browser is just fine i have 3 firefox , google chrome [which is very quick] and ie no problems[by the way i have xp pro] and i am not sure what you guys use in the states hope this helped