The funny thing is, while as a web developer I hate with all my guts fighting IE standards(?), I also hate how Firefox (yes even version 4) is a memory hog. It's unbearable to work with it consuming 700mb to 1Gb of memory, with just a few tabs and firebug on.
Chrome(webkit) on the other side, wins both of these two combined any time of day.
Mozilla, you have come a long away, you created history when you came out with Firefox, you destroyed IE user base back in the days, and in Europe you are now the number one top browser. However, please stop comparing yourself to other browsers and work on your own issues.
Point being is, I love FF (although I'm not using it lately), but I'm hating how cocky they are becoming.
Do you have steps to reproduce the huge RAM consumption by any chance (which sites do you have open, which OS)? I'm very interested in solving these kinds of performance issues in the product.
And for the record, I wish Paul Rouget hadn't posted this. IE9 is a great browser - they do some things better than us, even (text-overflow, SVG acceleration via D2D, out-of-process tabs), and we should recognize this.
I understand that people like netbook/nettops etc, but ram is really cheap. At 10$ / Gig range there is little reason to have less than 8GB and 16GB while probably overkill is still fairly inexpensive.
My experience is the reverse. I recently stopped using Chrome and switched back to Firefox 3.6 because Chrome was using over 3 gigabytes of memory with about 40 tabs open. (40 tabs sounds like a lot until you realize that no single workspace of my 10 active ones had more than 10 tabs).
With Firefox I've had over 100 tabs open simultaneously.
Love/hate with Firebug, though. I can't work without it, but it does eat a lot of memory and slow things down.
Chrome(webkit) on the other side, wins both of these two combined any time of day.
Mozilla, you have come a long away, you created history when you came out with Firefox, you destroyed IE user base back in the days, and in Europe you are now the number one top browser. However, please stop comparing yourself to other browsers and work on your own issues.
Point being is, I love FF (although I'm not using it lately), but I'm hating how cocky they are becoming.