I have not been feeling terribly experimental when it comes to browsers lately and so had resisted the urge to test drive the new Firefox 3.0 browser. Its still very much a beta, and I just don’t have the time to help Mozilla right now.
Well, last night after Firefox 2.x got bogged down for the umpteenth time that day, I thought maybe I will try 3.0 and see if it is any less the memory hog. I was hoping for fewer Firefox crashes and a browser that wouldn’t trip the trigger of my laptop which has a lowly 4 gigabytes of ram in it which these days just isn’t enough for general web browsing apparently.
So I downloaded and installed the program. Went quickly and like clockwork. I rapidly noticed that several of my preferred add ons are not compliant with 3.0, oh well I casually thought to myself.
"Who needs Google Toolbar anyway?" I said aloud, as i manually typed in news.google.com 6 times in the next hour.
Well the real test came about 2 hours later. Laptop still running. 2 Firefox windows open, 1 with 1 tab and 1 with 9 tabs.
The result, Firefox was taking up 175 mb of ram still!
wtf? Mozilla
I guess I will have to learn how to use Opera now, even though I haven’t yet been able to decipher the quick button for opening a new tab (ctrl-t in Firefox).
