I’ve been a long time Mozilla Firefox user. So far, I haven’t tended to pimp my prefered browser, at least not on my blog. I’ve never been a fan of sites that say “Best viewed with X browser”, even though my site does look better in Firefox and other standards based browsers than it does in Internet Explorer because I’m using CSS that IE does not yet support. However recently a few things I’ve discovered have made me change my mind, I’ve decided to become an online Firefox pusher.

Me and a few million other people have know for a long time that Firefox is simply a better browsing experience that the dominant Internet Explorer. But the thing that makes me want to get on my soapbox and shout about it is this:

StumbleUpon is a free extension for Firefox that helps you locate, or rather stumble upon, content-rich sites that are relevant to your interests. Once installed you get a StumbleUpon toolbar in Firefox, you can rate a site as “I like it!” or “Not-for-me”, clicking the “Stumble!” button will forward you to a new site based on the recommendations of other Stumbers with similar tastes to your own.

Using StumbleUpon has really taken me back to when I first started web surfing in 1996, when I used to keep browsing through random sites wondering if I’d ever manage to see them all. StumbleUpon has given the web new life for me. Now I just keep on stumbling to see what I’ll find next.

That reason is I’ve decided to go with the “Rediscover the web” Firefox button on my site.

Note: As it turns out, StumbleUpon is also available for IE. There are a tonne of other reasons to choose Firefox though…