Habitually Good

I use Firefox exclusively for my surfing needs. I only use IE when I need to test a site that I am developing.

Even though I am a die hard Firefox user, I still have had a love-hate relationship with Firefox so far. I like to never close my browser window. I usually have at least 5-10 tabs open at all times (I like to leave tabs open for things I don’t have time to read at this point, but will come back to later).

With my kind of usage, the biggest problem was the memory usage of Firefox. It routinely climbed up to the 700-800 Megabytes levels. And not only that, it became unstable and slow as well.

However, with Firefox 3, I started hearing rumors about how the memory is no longer a problem. So, yesterday, I finally took the plunge and installed Beta 4. And guess what, the rumors are bang on target. The memory doesn’t creep up like it used to. You can actually see the memory being released quite aggressively as soon as you close a tab in the browser (which never happened in the earlier versions).

Of course, all but 3 of my add-ons are disabled, but I don’t care. Either new versions will become available, or I will get used to working without them. The quicker and slicker Firefox 3 is worth it. Without even all the other improvements that everyone keeps talking about, it is worth the upgrade. Now lets hope nothing goes wrong between Beta 4 and final release.

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