Justins Fat Tire

Ok so I was on a rant the other day about FF 3 beta. Yes it still sucks memory and it killed almost all of my extensions but after trying to use IE 7 fulltime, well urg. 300 MB with 2 tabs is still not good but well they're working on it I think. It's still a pretty good browser and I find myself using it. For those running 2.x I think you should stick with it until they get 3.0 ready to rock for the prime time. Also some guy from Mozilla posted on the blog and gave some links to look at. That's pretty cool and let's me know they care about issues with the browser. Pretty rad if you ask me.

So I installed the FF 3 beta the other day to see what coolio replacements it had. I was really hoping it would stop the annoying tendency of FF 2 to whore memory like no other. FF 2 would routinely grab 300 MB with 1 or two tabs open. I've read storied about it taking up to a gig but I've never see that on my machine. So after install almost all my extensions got killed. 2 made it through adblock and noscript. Not a good start, so I open like 10 tabs browse to various sites and then close back down to two tabs. The memory sucking is still there and it evens beats my visual studio! Overall it's been a pretty blah experience browsing with this new version of FF. I haven't noticed any new and great things from my upgrade to 3. I might actually go back to IE 7 if the memory whoring continues. I think FF hit its stide in 1.5 and has just gotten more and more bloated. Come on guys fix the memory whoring!