I like to get up to date with software, and I prefer using Open Source to Closed in most cases, but like others out there, I had found Firefox 2 to be a bit... well, memory hungry. It had what we geeks like to call a memory leak. Essentially this means that it just keeps on using up the RAM.I still preferred it over IE6 (which was just a bit too dodgy for my liking, and hadn't been updated in years, but when IE 7 came out... I switched!
Then I heard (late) of the Firefox 3 beta. I downloaded a copy of Beta 1, installed it and... it was great! It was Firefox, but fast, until you opened up a few tabs. The Beta 2 came out and it is fast, and nowhere near a memory junkie.
That's my first impression - speed. It is faster than IE 7 - it even uses less memory than IE 7, which is cool. Now, even though it's just a beta, I've switched back to Firefox.
