Firefox brings sexy to it's browser.

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I remember when I started my career as a designer of all things www (ie [lol, excuse the pun], web designer), the only real browser that could be relied upon in my little world of knowledge was Firefox. This stayed true for many years. Then came Chrome.

At first I was sceptical. I mean, who the hell was chrome, and what was Google playing at, making a web browser. Was it any good? Webkit? Don't know it. Don't care.

Then I installed it, and it was probably the most accurate description of love at first sight. Yeah there was bugs, still are, and some sites just don't play nice with my new love, but who cares. All I saw was pretty, awesomeness, quickness etc etc.

Firefox became a burden, a hassle to open. I kept it there, not uninstalling it, but not using it either. It just sat there, hoping someone would just open it every now and again, dust it and give it a nice workout. It never happened. Still doesn't happen.

But now. I don't know. Firefox is showing off it's mockups for Firefox 4. And bigods, it's stunning! It seems Google hit the sweet spot with browser design, as FF4 is looking almost identical, no, I take it back, it looks... better! Could it be that Chrome's twin brother has come back, but from a different mother?

Using chrome has teached me to love a simple browser. I don't need or want many buttons floating around, taking space. I like clean. I love simplicity. I digg how the browser gives focus back to the web page. Chrome gave all that to me, with a dollop of speed. Firefox is going to give it to me. I am in love, twice. It IS possible to love more than once!

Go check it out! Want to help out, and add your two cents to my new crush? You can also join the team and push pixels to the People's browser!

Now, if you guys can here my out there. Since you have seen sense, and have taken a leaf out of Google Chrome's design tree, and add the following: We LOVE that chrome has ONE input field, to type addresses AND to do searches.

I have spoken.