Continuing on with their rapid-fire release schedule, version 10 of the Mozilla Firefox browser is now available for download.

Although there’s a bunch of stuff that’s cool about Fx 10, there are 3 in particular that I feel stand out above the rest.

First is actually the release notes page itself. I’ve been waiting for Mozilla to do this a long time to make it very easy to tell me which update/fix applies to what, and now they have. It’s even color-coded. Nice touch. If you’re saying to yourself, “Well, that has nothing to do with the browser.” Yes, it does because it’s informational.

Second is something that will make a lot of people happy, “Most add-ons are now compatible with new versions of Firefox by default”. IT’S ABOUT TIME, MOZILLA. That whole upgrade-and-break-half-my-add-ons-in-the-process was getting really annoying. Fortunately, that’s now been nipped in the bud for the most part, and that’s great. This is the best reason to upgrade to Firefox 10, period.

Third is a real cool tool for developers, “Inspect Element”. Right click anywhere on any web page and you’ll see it as the last choice:

When you do that, you see both this:

(note the speech bubble telling you the CSS rule)

…and this at the bottom of the browser:

Very nice, very easy. Web developers will really like this.

I guess Firefox follows the same Formula Star Trek movies do where only the even-numbered releases are the good ones, because 10 is good.

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