Hipatic

The numbering pattern for Firefox 2 (2.0.0.xx) made me think that there might be innumerable versions before we get to see Firefox 3.0. But thankfully Firefox has been working on betas for version 3 for long and we have seen some of the features meant for 3.0 enter the stable versions too. After Firefox launched the second release candidate, (news: http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/06/05/115210.shtml http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/257843.html) I ran a test to see if there is a difference in memory usage. Now this test should be flawed because of many many reasons, but still here it is. Firefox 3.0 RC2 1. Just Loaded: Memory: 29K (I was typing start in the address bar, which might hav caused a slight spike, but the memory was near 29K before I began typing) 2. 10 Start Tabs: Memory: 33K 3. 10 Start Windows(from the earlier 10 tabs, 9 were closed and 9 more windows with home page were opened ); Memory:44K 4. Back home after closing the other 9 windows:Memory 36K 5.Searche