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I've been using Firefox for some time now but the more I learn about it the better it gets.

Although overall it seemed much better than IE there were a couple of things that IE had that Firefox didn't. First there was true full screen mode where, on pressing F11, everything disappears, even the small bar at the top. This came became visible only when you moved your cursor to the top of the screen. Secondly was the ability to open open a web page in a text editor.

This was easy in Opera. The preferences page allowed you to choose whatever editor you prefered which then opened with Ctrl + Spacebar. In IE you could at least edit the page in Notepad.

Well both these problems have now been solved by using Firefox extentions. Extentions are available to customize all different aspects of Firefox, some of which are particularly great for Firefox users who build web pages. In fact with the extentions I use for Firefox now I can truthfully say no other browser comes close to Firefox for web development.

I can now open web pages with View Source With which totally rocks. Not only can I now open a page in my text editor (NoteTab Pro) at the click of Ctrl +U, I can also choose several editors from a new item on the  View menu.

I also have the excellent Web Developer by Chris Pederick. This adds a great tool bar of very useful commands the most useful of which is the Outline command. This allows you to outline any element/s you want by putting a coloured border around them. Great for seeing how a site is designed or seeing where a problem with specific element is.

Web Developer does loads of other stuff like validating your page (if connected to the web) for CSS or HTML, links, speed report etc. Adding your own CSS to a page, disabling stuff etc.

Web Developer also has its own view source button and happily for me this doesn't open in NoteTab. Why? Because this opens with another great extention HTML Validator. This uses Tidy to instantly tell you of any errors or warnings in the page being viewed. If you want to see how someone elses web page is as well as its problems just hit the View Source button and away you go.

Another useful extention is Aardvark. This, like web developer, helps you identify elements but by hovering the cursor over what you want - when its turned on. Sometimes its better than Web Developer for this so I use both.

Also useful is Jeremy Gillick's Lorum Ipsum generator for quickly creating filler text from the Firefox menu, and Edit CSS which allows you to edit the CSS of any page from the sidebar.

There are loads of other great extentions for Firefox and if you can't find what you need search the forums, as I did for View Source With..., or post a query and chance are....
Firefox is a great browser but with extentions it's the best.