Besides being a browser, Firefox can be a lot more due to availability of hundreds of add-ons. "FireCAT (Firefox Catalog of Auditing exTension) is a mindmap collection of the most efficient and useful firefox extensions oriented application security auditing and assessment"
The current official version of Firecat is still based on FF2, but most add-ons are also available on FF3. If you want to start using FF3, you should also take a look at some FF3 only add-ons: Cipherfox, Javascript Deobfuscator, JSON View, and Lazarus form recovery. The only big disadvantage of switching to FF3 is the incompatibility of XML developer toolbar for which I did not find a worthy successor yet....
The big disadvantage of using all these add-ons is that if you, for some reason, have to use another machine, you have to install all your favourite add-ons again. To tackle this problem, take a look at Firefox Portable. It is a modified installer of firefox that allows you to install it on an USB stick. All add-ons that you install on FF portable are also instantaneously portable. This way you can always have your fully customized Firefox with you !
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