When the Mozilla project finally clued in that their all-in-one browser, editor, email client, other-things-too was just too massive for most people, they began splitting off the technology and developing smaller, stand-alone apps. Firefox (nee Firebird, nee Phoenix) is the web-browser component. It’s a fine app, the best Windows browser out there, certainly the best cross-platform browser. On the Mac I use Camino, which is the Mozilla rendering engine, just like Firefox, but with a tasty Apple-flavored coating.

Firefox is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Being open source, it’s been ported to [[http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.0.4.html#othersystems|lots of other platforms]] as well.

What makes it particularly good is all the extensions that have cropped up around it, allowing it to do cool things.