Firefox 3 To Be Released On June 17th
After receiving upwards of 1 000 000 pledges, Firefox 3 is set to be available for download on June 17th.
There’s still a number of questions though about the reliability of the product itself. Firefox 2 had known issues with RAM usage, and FF3 doesn’t seem to have resolved any of these.
Unfortunately, one issue that still exists in Firefox is memory leaks. According to the release notes, developers plugged “over 300 individual memory leaks,” but still after just a few minutes of browsing with just 8 or so tabs open, Firefox was using over 150mb of RAM — and I often have 20 or 30 tabs open while writing and researching stories
While the memory issue has improved compared to Firefox 2, browsers such as Opera and Safari are handling sites that are loaded with AJAX, videos, music, and other heavy hitters much better than Firefox 3
