Why use FireFox
Faster - way faster than the slowest IE7. And the next version 3.1 should be 10% even faster than Chrome.
Stable - better memory management means less crash and won’t slow down other programs running on your machine.
Add-ons - thousands of Add-ons all over the internet gives you thousands of reasons to use FireFox.
Basic Add-ons - for normal to power users
All-in-One Sidebar - an All-in-one manager
extreme handy and easy to use. I put it “Always on” on my wide screen notebook.
Cooliris - Coolest photo search ever
Cool, Fast, Easy to use; than how you can image.
Drag & DropZone - Search Helper
probably the fastest way to do searching on web pages.
Fast Dial - start-up page like the Chrome
tile start-up pages which totally under your control.
Flash Block - simply stop the Flash from autorun
It gives you a choice on start/stop auto running Flash on web pages. Great for old machines or power users like me having many pages running at the same time.
GooglePreview - thumbnail preview of the webpage when u searching the Google.
great for power searcher. It tell you if the page is an offical page, a junk page, a forum, a blog, etc.
IE Tab - view ASP pages under FireFox
an MUST installed add-on for power users. Even better than the IE7 itself.
Image Zoom - Zoom in / Out using wheel on you mouse. Handy.
ScrapBook - Save web page for later use.
just like the “Print Screen” for a web page. Fast, Handy, Easy to manage, better then the “Save as”
Power Add-ons - for power users and developers
ColorZilla - Get the Color on any area from a web page
the most common ways to “copy” color information of another web page to yours.
FireGestures - Control the FireFox by Gestures
not everyone likes to use. But it surely gives you another way to control the webpages other than the menubars and buttons.
Gmail Space - change your Gmail to a Hard Disk on the internet
Greasemonkey - Script engine
and engine which everyone and easily create scripts / macros on it.
There is thousands of scripts on the internet you can download.
Ubiquity - you can talk with your browser now!
by typing something like”Search David on google”, cool but the whole concept is under beta.
Web Developer - a suite of tools for web developers