I was quite happy when Firefox 3 came out. I recall reading that Firefox changed how it handled memory and there was much rejoicing. I upgraded both my Windows ThinkPad at work and MacBook at home, and thought I noticed an immediate improvement, it was faster... it was better... it... or was I experiencing a placebo effect? Now that I've been using Firefox (currently on the latest 3.5.3), I can say, there was an improvement on my Windows machine, but on the Mac, Firefox still eats through my poor MacBook's measley 1 GB of memory like the Rapa Nui did their ecosystem. Crash. Crash. Crash. Sigh.

I think I will do as Duncan Riley has (see TechCrunch article: Firefox 3 Beta 1: The Memory Use Says It All and download Flock instead.