IE8 - So should I finally upgrade?

[thruma]

Firefox is totally hands down a better browser but it does pain me to say that IE8 is much faster than FF and doesn't come near to being the memory hog that FF is.

As great as FF is they still haven't fixed the memory problem.

[student4ever]

Originally Posted by thruma

Firefox is totally hands down a better browser but it does pain me to say that IE8 is much faster than FF and doesn't come near to being the memory hog that FF is.

As great as FF is they still haven't fixed the memory problem.

Can't deny the memory issue with FF, especially when you keep gobs of tabs open like I do. Every now and again I have to simply restart it to clear things out.

I don't have IE8 installed, but have you checked the speed of FF3.5 versus IE8? FF3.5 has a lot more zip to it than previous versions.

[DonMike]

Yeah, and the new firefox seems to be working really well for me. I'm a big fan. I have the new IE in case I need to log in to a site I'm in with a different log in. It happens. Or on a rare case where FF isn't working with a particular feature. You know, like on Ebay they have a clock that ticks down the final minutes of an auction but it doesnt' work on FF only IE.

[thruma]

Originally Posted by student4ever

Can't deny the memory issue with FF, especially when you keep gobs of tabs open like I do. Every now and again I have to simply restart it to clear things out.

I don't have IE8 installed, but have you checked the speed of FF3.5 versus IE8? FF3.5 has a lot more zip to it than previous versions.

Yeah I did do the upgrade and it seems a bit faster but still hogs memory.
I left my FF on overnight just a few days ago with no tabs and the darn thing actually ran itself up to about 350MB or so each of real mem and virtual mem. Just crazy.

I'm here with two tabs open now and my mem is 163 real and 166 virtual.