In a little more detail...

I'm just a big, long-time fan of customizing web browsers. To the point that, as an interest/hobby, it rivals my fascination with and love for the actual content of the Web itself.

My experience has been this: Browsing the Web used to be all about the novelty of having the greatest information and media resource of all time right at our fingertips... however, the Web has grown into such an absurdly enormous and wildly diverse collection of information that navigating it is becoming a task that makes getting lost in the Amazon River Basin seem like a Sunday stroll in the park. And the only solution is building a better web browser -- a piece of software that can pull down massive hunks of data from the Internet for a user and be able to present that hunk in its entirety (or close to it) and yet do it intelligently, arrange it logically and make it accessible and digestible in a reasonable amount of time for the user regardless of who they are and what degree of technological know-how they may have.

Of course, building the ultimate web browser is probably an unattainable goal. But, in my opinion, the best effort at creating such a piece of software has come out of the Mozilla camp as Firefox and, particularly the wide array of creative add-ons that it's inspired, have allowed for the best innovations in web browsing so far. And it's been pretty amazing and rewarding being able to indulge my geekiness (to the point that it gets in the way of my nerdiness, heh) by tinkering with Firefox and developing my own add-ons and mods while simultaneously having free access to an open-source community like this with so many brilliant concepts, clever gadgets, hidden gems or, always at the very least, some plain old fresh perspectives all on how to access and digest the web (before it eats us first!).