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[Travis Retriever]

Algebra was my undoing. I had a horrible teacher in high school and never really learned how to do it properly. I could rock the calculus and other advanced math, but it always broke down when I had to do the algebra part.

Ouch.  Sorry to hear that. I guess I'm lucky.  I was home schooled and was taught the stuff in like, 5th or 6th grade.  My mom was far from a perfect teacher, but considering we didn't have internet access, nor could we afford full on textbooks (we TRIED to borrow--even offered to buy--from the so called public schools, but they told us we were on our own--despite having someone over every year or so to make sure what I was learning was up to par....), I'd say we did well.

Those are the two big must-haves. I have Adblock Plus as well, but I have it on minimal settings just to get the suspicious ones. Support sites that rely on advertising.

You should also have Calomel if you're concerned about security and privacy. It'll tell you how good a site's SSL encryption is, including whether or not it uses Perfect Forward Secrecy.

Lazarus: Form Recovery has saved my bacon more times than I care to count.

I have several more, but those are probably the really useful ones for most people.

Thanks.   As for me and Adblock Plus, I just put it on the default settings and US list (easylist I think it's called?) and left it that way.