
"While Firefox 2 used less memory than it's predecessor, Firefox 1.5, we intentionally restricted the number of changes to the Gecko platform (Gecko 1.8.1 was only slightly different than Gecko 1.8) on which Firefox was built. However, while the majority of people were working on Firefox 2/Gecko 1.8.1, others of us were already ripping into the platform that Firefox 3 was to be built on: Gecko 1.9. We've made more significant changes to the platform than I can count, including
many to reduce our memory footprint. The result has been dramatic."
Member since:
2005-07-09
I'm pleased with the other changes, but the interface for OS X is just way too large. It eats up twice as much realestate as Safari and doesn't do anything more. Just because IE 7 has obnoxiously large buttons, doesn't mean Firefox has to.