Why should you choose Firefox 3?

Firefox first entered the scene of web-browsers sometime during 2004.  This was bad news for IE (Internet Explorer) who owned, well pretty much the web browsing scene.  With many people experiencing problems with the web-rendering compatibilities of the infamous IE people started seeking a better, faster and more secure web-browser.

This is where Firefox came in, with Firefox's clean interface and blazing fast Gecko rendering engine Firefox was the wow factor.  Firefox has since then "stolen" around 18% of IE's market share, this is shared also with other browsers such as Apples Safari, Opera and other smaller browsers.  Firefox after being spread among literally millions of people, mainly due to the record breaking download day. 

Firefox has not only set the standards for many of today's modern browsers, but has also gone beyond just being a web browser, you can now apply "add-ons" these add-ons enable users to enhance their browsing experience for example the add-on Foxmarks will synchronize your favourites between multiple computers automatically upon closing the browser. 

Firefox is an Open source browser, the really means that you are free to see every piece of code that went into making the browser.  A great example of the possibilities you can do with an open source browser has been mentioned previously in my blog, Flock is a web browser that has been built on Firefox, Flock and Firefox are in essence the same browser the only differences being the fact that Flock has features that rely on new technologies that enable software to communicate with various API's, this adds features such as being able to interact with the social networking site Facebook without actually going to their site eg.  You can  send a shout to friends, Nude friends, leave a comment on their wall etc.

Firefox has changed web browsers in many different ways, it has innovated and explored places that IE probably hadn't considered prior to Firefox.  This has attracted millions of people and has replaced IE on many people computers.

Whether you use Firefox or not, I would like to hear your views on the browser.  If you like Firefox, why? If you don't, why?