Well, I've not posted about Firefox yet as, to be honest, it always slips my mind when I'm thinking about open source on my mac, even though it's probably the best known open source application. I'd even go as far as saying it may be the best known open source application on any platform.
I use this application everyday without fail. I would recommend it over Safari in a heartbeat. This is not only because it is open source, but also because of the plug ins that are available for it. In fact, I thought the best way to blog about this app was to tell you about a few of the plug ins/addons that I use.
The first and probably most used is the del.icio.us toolbar. For those of you who haven't check out delicious then it's definitely worth a look. You'll never be without your bookmarks again.
This addon allows you to quickly bookmark a page to delicious, tag it and also to access recent bookmarks in a very convenient way.
Secondly, I would definitely recommend the web developer toolbar, for all those web devs out there. This toolbar is the main reason I now find it very difficult to use any other browser when I'm debugging a site (as you may or may not know, I'm a web developer myself). This toolbar has great features like, being able to disable javaScript, quick viewing of CSS/HTML and also quick resize tools so you can test your site in smaller windows.
The last addon I thought I'd recommend is greasemonkey. This is a very powerful tool that allows you to write custom javaScript for specific pages. This is great for adding functionality to a page or even disabling annoying javaScript you may experience on a page you visit a lot.
I would just close by saying, if you have never tried firefox as an alternative browser, give it a go at once. You won't be sorry.
