Lately I’ve been skeptical about Firefox. It seems lately they are bombarding us with updates, and with each one comes new problems. I appreciate them being on top of things, but the updates have caused many problems with my add-ons. It also seems that Firefox crashes about as many times as Netscape 6 used to, even when I have all add-ons disabled. Firefox has always taken up way too much memory, which is supposed to be adaptive based on how much RAM my system has available, but I no longer believe that. It seems to be quite a hog no matter what.
It doesn’t seem that Firefox 3 will make any major improvements. It looks and feels the same, only the engine is supposed to be much faster, and it is based on my first look at it. Over time though, the browser seems to only be getting more and more bloated instead of the trim and quick browser I remembered with 1.0. It might be time to switch back to IE or perhaps give Safari for Windows a try.