Patent ID: 7257614

Claim:
A method of configuring one or more browser software applications on a user computer for defining how a user interfaces with the one or more browser applications, the user computer performing the steps of: loading a browser configuration program therein wherein the user computer also has one or more browser software applications stored thereon; entering by a user preferences for that user as browser preferences of the browser configuration program specific to select ones of the one or more browser applications on the user computer; generating a user ID unique to the user from the browser configuration program in response to the user completing the input of browser preferences, which unique user ID creates an association between the completed browser preferences, the select ones of the one or more of the browser software applications and the user; launching one of the one or more browser software applications on the user computer; and prompting a user for a unique user ID; wherein subsequent input of the user ID by the user into the browser configuration program in response to the prompt on the user computer by the user configures the selected one of the one or more browser software applications according to the respective user preferences for the launched one of the one or more browser software applications.