This is the first Firefox book I’ve read, so it won’t have a comparison to any of the others — as a few books hit the market soon after Firefox started nipping at Internet Explorer’s market share of the browser market.

Chapter 1 kicks off the book with an introduction explaining why Firefox is a first-rate browser and how to install its Windows, Mac, and Linux releases. “Essential Browsing Features,” the next chapter, reviews tabbed browsing, searching, downloading, and other features.

I’ve used Firefox prior to the v1.0 release and I’ve picked up a few tricks in this chapter. The tips go beyond entering keywords into the search box or changing search engines. However, I found an error — the book says to left-click on a selected word on any Web page and run a search on the selected word — It’s right-click, not left. [ Read review of Firefox Secrets ]