FireFox 3 (beta) fixed the FF2 massive memory leak problem!

I recently switched from FireFox 2 to Opera because FF was eating up 800MB+ of my 1GB of RAM. It would eat more and more memory as I browsed, and finally eat up so much that it slowed my system until it crashed or I killed the process.

Opera is great, but unfortunately its handling of JavaScript is less robust than FF and IE, so I had problems using my Yahoo! Mail and GMail accounts. They worked with Opera, just not very well.

So when I heard that the FireFox 3 beta was available, I jumped on the chance to give it a go and see if they'd fixed that massive memory problem that FF2 was having.

I've been testing it all day long, and watching the process to see how much memory it's eating up. I'm very, very glad to say that as I close down pages and instances of the browser, the memory usage actually decreases (it never would in FF2--it only increased).

So I've switched back to FireFox. I really love its built-in spell-checker for text area boxes. Makes posting to my blog a lot easier. :)

I've read about some bugs and kinks in FireFox 3, but so far I haven't run into any issues with it on my system. I'm back to being in love with FireFox. Thanks Mozilla!