Seriously... why is Firefox such a great browser?

While I'd love to wax exponentially about how great of a web browser Firefox is, I'm going to try and give it to you in a nutshell. A very easy-to-crack nutshell, that is...

1. Gotta love that tabbed browsing! Firefox came up with it first, folks, so accept no imitations! A simple "Ctrl + T" will open a new tab for you instantly.
2. A session-restore feature that rocks my world. If you get interrupted by a power outage or something like that while you're working in Firefox, it will restore your session when you open it up again. What's great is that it restores things to the exact pages you were working in.
3. It's the little things that mean so much: a built-in spell checker, search suggestions, a pop-up blocker, easy RSS feed-management, the ability to clear your private data after every session, automatic updates, protection from spyware and phishing, and DHTML accessibility. Plus, there's an integrated search bar that comes pre-loaded with Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, eBay, Answers.com, and Creative Commons search engines so, no matter where you are on the web, you can easily search one of these sites without ever opening a new tab or leaving the page you are on. And you can add more engines! I like to add the IMDB, Wikipedia, del.icio.us, Flickr tags, and Webster's dictionary. I use this search engine feature all the time! AND...what's great is that now you can add the CML catalog as a search in Firefox! You never have to leave the page you're on to search the library's catalog again!
4. Finally, one of the things I really like best about Firefox, is that you can do some serious pimpin' and personalizin' to this browser. Firefox calls them "add-ons," but I call them little rays of sunshine that make the browser mine. These add-ons tweak the browser in such a way that you control what it does, what it searches and what it looks like. For example, say you want to search a bookmark in del.icio.us quickly. Instead of logging in to del.icio.us, add the del.icio.us extension to the Firefox browser and you can do it all with one click. The list of recommended extensions is awesome. You can also change the look of the browser overall by installing a theme from the myriad of choices they have. I promise you you'll have fun with this! I often choose more than one theme to download at a time and then I can switch back and forth between them, just to mix it up a little. Hey, it's YOUR browser, make it look and feel and function the way YOU want it to!

But don't take my word on how great Firefox is. Download it today and start playing around with it. Did you know it is the best browser to use when searching the library catalog? Use it for all your searching. Take advantage of all the things it can do for you and it will change the way you use the Web... in a very good way!

Any dedicated or long-time users of Firefox out there? What do you like best about it?