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4 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.1 beta 1
"Great and continues to improve"
Pros: Faster at rendering Javascript courtesy of Tracemonkey. As of now you have to manually turn this on by going to the address bar and typing about:config and setting the javascript.options.jit.content boolean to true.
Cons: A bit unstable, which is often expected from most beta products.
Summary: I honestly did not see any increase in RAM usage. Perhaps you have a memory leaking addon such as Forecastfox.
Then again, weird things happen on Vista. Autodesk Inventor uses 200MB+ on XP and less than 100MB on Vista. Firefox 3.1 uses slightly over 100MB if I have three tabs open. Lagging on Youtube has stopped since updating to Flash Player 10 too.
People want it to be fast and use less RAM. Those do not go hand in hand very well. If more of the program is stored in RAM, it runs faster. There has to be a balance and Firefox with all the addons you have seems to hover around 100 MB. Fine by me, I have 2GB and RAM is dirt cheap these days for newer PCs.
As for it starting slower than IE. IE pretty much loads with Windows because it is integrated with Windows. Not the entire program but parts of it load. It's expected. People want a browser that has great features but yet they want it to start up instantaneously. That just doesn't happen in current times. Maybe in the future we'll all have super computers the size of netbooks that'll load anything in milliseconds, to the point where the wait time to start is barely noticeable. Then the complaints will all stop and Vista will suddenly become a better OS.
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