I love Firefox. I am a Firefox Student Ambassador. Firefox is one of the applications I proactively recommend to people.
Firefox has a long history of working hard to give people choice when they were struggling with Internet Explorer.
But it is not for historic reasons that I use Firefox as my only browser. Firefox is fast, stable. It has a lot of addons which I love to use.
Tips
Screenshot
There are two awesome ways to take a (full page) screenshot in Firefox.
- Shift + F2 -> type
screenshot --fullpage - Go to dev tools -> settings -> available toolbox buttons -> Take a fullpage screenshot
Addons
- Adblock: I know blocking ads is not exactly good for web developers. But yeah, I can’t live without adblock plus
- Greasemonkey: At such rare times when some website fails to provide things I really want to do, I use greasemonkey. The number of poke wars I’ve won on Facebook itself should make this a cool addon.
- ImageBlock: Internet is sucky in India. And when it really sucks, blocking images is an easy way for faster page load, and lesser bandwidth. ImageBlock makes that painless.
- Live HTTP Headers: This is a nifty tool in the web hackers tool kit. I’ve used this to do a great deal of things I couldn’t have done without it. Purchasing xiamoi phones for others using direct flipkart api link is only one of them
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Mozilla also has developed FirefoxOS which is a super friendly, adaptive, web first, web native operating system for running smartphones, smart TVs, smart PCs, everything. So, Firefox is now an OS.