I use FireFox because it's easier and more user friendly/open to customizations.

Nothing is truly 'secure'.

 

when firefox has a problem it gets fixed right away

 

do you guys notice firefox eating up a lot of ram when you use multiple tabs and don't close the application for like weeks at a time?

one time firefox was using nearly 200mb of memory. I was surprised. I had not closed the browser in about 10days and had 4 tabs open.

 

I never leave firefox open for that long.

 

I do and I don't recall IE eating up that much memory. No biggie, just need to close the browser then open it again. Just an observation.

 

Yea, I notice that right away... after a few hours, FF eats up like 60mb. I just restart.

 

exactly

 

actually, 3 tabs, open for 10min 50mb :eek4:

 

haha.. damn.. shut your computer down once in a while!

it probably has a memory leak. a lot of programs have memory leaks, cuz it's an easy mistake for even a highly experienced programmer to make.

IE also seems to not take up as much memory because a good portion of it's core is already embedded in windows. if they made it into a standalone application, it'd probably eat up plenty of memory.

edit: that being said, firefox is a bit on the fat side. despite seeming like a pretty light application, i'm surprised that it takes up as much memory as it does. hope they can slim it down!

 

In the last 5 months, there are more Secunia advisories for Firefox than IE.