I have long been an avid user of Firefox. Mainly because the other options suck.. (Though I must admit that Opera 9 is nice.)  But lately it’s pissin me off..

Firefox does everything I want it to, and does it nicely.  Though lately its starting to do somethings that disappoint me.  Firstly, the latest update seems to have a terrible memory leak.  In windows 2000 pro if leave firefox open and running for more than a day or two it will have hundreds of megs chewed up.. Even after ALL tabs are closed.   That’s not cool.

Combine that with the fact that often after exiting it, it will linger in memory until you reboot or end the process and you have issues – frankly that’s not acceptable.   Come on guys, other browsers are catching up.

IE7 is still nothing to fear but its getting closer.. and as I mentioned Opera is nice and every day 1 or 2 new users switch to it.. (bringing to total users that use it to about 43..)

Firefox still outperforms IE in my opinion and has much better DOM / JS support.  But IE’s CSS support is getting better and might even be close to even with firefox.    Firefox still has the plugin architecture though, god bless it.

Either way, I’m still unhappy with it lately.  Its slowing down something aweful, and bogging up my box..   To give you an idea how bad it is… I wrote this using IE6… Bleh..