I use all browsers (with the exceotion of Internet Explored) because I don't like any of them. For years Firefox has been my default browser because of its support for add-ons, its bookmarks management and, since I discovered RSS, because of the RSS icon in the url bar which (contrary to Kroc's opinion mentioned above- I prefer icons to text, the RSS icon is visually more appealing than 'Subscribe' for example) notifies me that a site provides RSS support so I do not need external tools like FeedBurner to add feeds to my Feed Reader, simple and easy (I do not think that a browser should try to educate people about RSS or anything else, when I saw RSS buttons at websites I got curious, checked at Wikipedia and since then I cannot imagine reading articles without the help of my aggregator). Unfortunately, in Firefox 4 (which for me is a spectacular failure) the developers removed the RSS icon which is ridiculous, and which was one of the reasons for me to keepto an older version. If a feature is not used by the majority of users it does not mean that it should be removed, in this stream of crippled logic at least 90% of the features that an office suite offers should have already been removed because 90% of the users do not use more than 10% of these features. The Firefox developers as usual did not pay any attention to users' complains and removed the icon entirely leaving no option to restore it, which would have been the lesser evil. Yes, as one could have expected, very soon plug-ins that offer restoration of the RSS icon to the url bar appeared. I don't like to clutter my browser with plug-ins, I use only few, indispensable for me for fluent and easy web browsing, so I prefer swtichning to Opera than searching for add-ons only to restore a feature that has been removed. I am not going to discuss here the downfall of Firefox in version 4, enough has been said about its shortcomings, for me the worst about it is not its slowness, it instability, its high resource usage, its terrible fonts rendering, is not any of its many major defects, but the direction of its development. Mozilla programmers decided to entirely copycat Google Chrome, maybe because of its fast market share growth. This is amazingly stupid, people who like Chrome won't switch to Firefox because the latter resembles Chrome, people who preferred Firefox and were disgusted by Chrome would find no reason to stick to it. If I want Chrome I will have Chrome, but not something that imitates it and is 10 times slower (Firefox 4 needs more time to initiate than OpenOffice for example, amazing). So Firefox developers showed once again that they do not care for the 'elite' users who rely on RSS feeds and they sumply force them to switch to another, more friendly browser- Opera, Safari, even K-Meleon (which is the fastest and lightest browser, although Gecko-based).

I had a look at Asa Dotzler's blog and now I understand better why what happened to Firefox really happened- it looks more like an advertising site than a developer's blog, narcissistic comments about FF, attacks on other browsers, arrogant attitude towards those ignorami who dared disagree with him. As usual, marketing killed programming.