[CentOS] CentOS 6

I finally switched workstations, and am running into a lot of truly
annoying details with CentOS 6, and the software with it. For one, I'm
doing this by webmail, and this version of Firefox *insists* on putting
what I'm typing in gray, rather than black. For another, I despise the new
version of thunderbird, since it now shows the full subject, if I have
what they used to call the preview pane... and then take six more lines to
do it, which I can't make go away.[1]

rxvt, which is my preferred terminal, comes up with about 6 pt type, and
I'm trying to find out how to change that, as well as bringing up all
seven of my sessions in a directory under my home, instead of home....

*sigh* Hopefully, 6.1 will fix at least *some* things...

         mark, who doesn't want something that looks like M$....

1. All mailreaders used to show this information at the top of the email,
and hide or unhide the rest of the headers... but no matter what, if I
scrolled down, they went off the top of the screen, not stayed there
occupying space.