Wilson Blog Site: Why Firefox so great?

Well, i was started using Firefox since the first version, ver1.0 in late year 2004. I'm very like it's design, simple and rich of functions. And i can also customize firefox to my dreaming web browser.

Below is the great features of Mozilla Firefox:
Tabbed browsing
Which allows users to open multiple pages in the same window.

Pop-up blocking
Firefox was given this feature early in beta development, and it was a major comparative selling point of the browser until Internet Explorer gained the capability in the Windows XP Service Pack 2 beta. It also prevents JavaScript-based links opening a new window while a page is loading unless the site is added to a "safe list" found in the options menu.

Download manager
Firefox download manager is that the user can view the full source URL and destination path of the file being downloaded via the Properties box; Internet Explorer only shows the file name and source domain name.

Live Bookmarks
Powered by RSS or Atom feeds, "Live Bookmarks", another feature of Firefox, allow users to dynamically monitor changes to their favorite news sources.

Add-ons
1 Extensions
Firefox users can add features and change functionality in Firefox by installing extensions. Most extensions are not created or supported by Mozilla. As extensions have the same rights to the user's system as Firefox itself, it's possible to create malicious extensions.

2 Themes
Firefox also supports a variety of themes/skins for changing its appearance. Themes are simply packages of CSS and image files.

3 Plugins
On June 30, 2004, the Mozilla Foundation, in partnership with Adobe, Apple, Macromedia, Opera, and Sun Microsystems, announced a series of changes to web browser plugins. The new API will allow web developers to offer richer web browsing experiences, helping to maintain innovation and standards.

Customizability
The position of the toolbars and interface are customizable. Also can modify the behaviour of features and tweak performance.

Web technologies support
Firefox has extensive support for most basic Web standards including HTML, XML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM, MathML, SVG, XSL and XPath.

Cross-platform support Mozilla Firefox runs on a wide variety of platforms. Releases available on the primary distribution site support the following operating systems:

Various versions of Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X
Linux-based operating systems using X.Org Server or XFree86

Security
Firefox includes many features designed to improve security. Key features include a sandbox security model, same origin policy, external protocol whitelisting, a phishing detector (in Firefox 2.0), Clear Private Data, and master passwords.

Usability
Firefox was designed for the average user, hiding advanced configuration and making features that do not require user interaction to function.