I have been using Firefox for quite a while now, and I am just posting some notes about how/why I use it.

The whole security discussion is a red herring to me, since you have to consider that everything on the planet is NOT secure. But features like type-ahead find are really useful for productive web browsing (an oxymoron?).

As a web developer, extensions like the JavaScript Debugger, the Web Developer Toolbar, and ColorZilla, the built in color picker. I also use LiveHttpHeaders for debugging http communication between the client and server.

Today I just came across some tricks to make Firefox faster for broadband users. Done!

I actually changed Firefox to be the default browser on my Windows boxen, but still stick with Safari on the Mac as the default, even though Firefox is always open, as my primary development browser. This is mainly because Firefox insists on attaching Acrobat to downloaded .pdf files, instead of the more usable Preview, ala Safari.

I would say that Firefox is the best browser that I have used to date. Not really saying a lot though.

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