Interesting Firefox add-on that lets you highlight text on a web page and do stuff with it - search, translate, convert currency, &c.

Interesting, true, but I also know plenty of decidedly non-geeky, non-web savvy types who use Firefox, without "customising" their computer in any other way. i.e. (pun intended) it's not always a gateway drug.

Brilliant Firefox extension that remembers the text zoom level you've set for specific sites.

"Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page."

"I wonder if you could build a Linux distro where the only program installed was Firefox? "

Firefox extension that saves entire webpages as images.

Chatsum is a FREE add-on for your web browser that lets you chat with all the other Chatsum users that are looking at the same website as you.

More on Flock.

"We're introducing the world's most innovative social browsing experience. We call it the two-way web." They mean drag 'n' drop weblogging, Flickr integration, del.icio.us for storing bookmarks.

12.1% of BBC users are Firefox users.

"Piggy Bank is an extension to the Firefox web browser that turns it into a “Semantic Web browser”, letting you make use of existing information on the Web in more useful and flexible ways."