I’m sitting here writing this with twelve open tabs. If this was Firefox 2, I’d be somewhere between 300 and 500-something megabytes of RAM. I actually tried to switch to Safari (and WebKit nightly) unsuccessfully. What’s wrong with Safari? Honestly, there’s nothing wrong with it. I’m attached to command-option-arrow-key to switch tabs and I can’t retrain my brain to use command-shift-arrow-key. Oh and one more thing. I’m a developer. I am married to Firebug, which incidentally actually works in Firefox 3 if you get the 1.1 beta. So where was I? Oh yeah. So here I am with twelve open tabs. Twelve open tabs and it’s eating 137MB of RAM. It’s like I just doubled my entire system’s RAM. Holy shit it’s so much snappier and it’s got native-looking UI in Leopard (Although it’s not truly native, if it was I could command-control-d-mouse-over a word to look it up–try that in any native app). Anyways, if you’re running Firefox 2 and thinking of switching, do it now…to Firefox 3.

Updated: slight fix for location bar behavior courtesy of Richard Crowley