The third major version of Firefox was released this morning to much fanfare.  Yes, there were many improvements in the bookmark and address bar systems, but the thing I’m most excited about is the significantly smaller memory footprint.

I’ve had FF3 running for about six hours now, and it’s  using about 150 MB of RAM.  The old version would have been north of 500 MB and would have been slowing to a crawl.  That’s progress!

Though it’s not Mozilla’s fault, I’m a little disappointed that some of my favorite extensions haven’t been updated.  In the meantime, I’ll have to make do with the ol’ “switch the max version in the xpi’s install.pdf” trick.