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The last weeks I’ve been happily using Firefox for my browsing needs, today I have some good comments to share with you.

Firefox is developed by the Mozilla foundation, I almost forgot: Happy first year anniversary guys!

Firefox is based on the web standards friendly Gecko engine (like its parent Mozilla and their cousin Netscape) and has many features which allow us a better user experience. Let’s review some of them:

Multiplatform support: You can download and install Firefox for many different operating systems.

Tabs navigation: This is one of my favorites, you can have many tabs, each pointing to a different url. Some of you will say “I can do that with multiple windows in my current browser!", but let me tell you this is really better, you can open a new tab with ctrl+t, want to open a link in a new tab?, just ctrl click it!.

You, weblog readers, will find tab navigation helpful, you can be reading a post and ctrl click the links on it, you will have tabs with the related url loaded by the time you end reading, it’s a great time saver!

Extensions: Using easy to install extensions you can make Firefox perform many different tasks. There are many people creating great extensions out there. If you are a web developer I strongly suggest you download this one. It will make your life better. Did I mention all of this is multiplatform?

Excellent bookmarks control: You can administer your bookmarks from an easy to learn interface and assign keywords to any url. Keywords are nice, just type them instead of writing a very long url, for example I only use the keyword “r1″ to read this weblog (and “r2″ for my other one), you can even add parameters to your keywords, nice for using with online dictionaries.

If you are a mobile user and work with different computers then you really need to install this bookmark extension to keep your bookmarks always synchronized.

And finally:

Great support of web standards: I already mentioned that Firefox is a Gecko browser, or should I say an NGLayout browser?, Firefox support for web standards is brilliant. If you want to design compliant web pages then Firefox will be your best friend.

There is a great community around Firefox and all Mozilla projects, people from the great Netscape era, nice people like Eric and Dave, to name a few, also contribute.

I really think all of us, web developers, should support Mozilla and its products, not only because they create great open source products, but because they are helping us build the web of tomorrow.

I can not finish this post without recommending you to read Ben Goodger’s excellent article about Firefox benefits.

Happy firefoxing!