Firefox 3 was put on a diet, now it eats less than IE and Opera.

Now, Firefox 3 consumes two times less memory than Firefox 2.

It also became more responsive when switching between pages, bug 2 version was cured, when at a certain point, after prolonged use, the browser heavily loaded the processor.

As shown by the tests, when opening 50 tabs, Firefox 3 consumes less memory than Opera, IE and Safari.


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PS A rare example when a program of a later version consumes resources less than a younger version.

via arstechnica