Firefox Extensions!

[Shayne]

IE7 while great in many ways lacks extensions (good ones), if it had the same type of community and flexibility that FF has, i would probaby be back to using IE7

[Tom]

it talks about ways of reducing memory consumption if it is a problem for you.

It isn't a problem since I don't use it

I sometime have multiple windows open with many tabs (10+ each), and the browser I use, uses up about 200MB doing so (total of both processes I have going right now). And it doesn't get slow and consume more CPU than it needs either, unlike all versions of Firefox I've used (for any real length of time) for the past couple years. I've uses 1.x 2.x and that beta 3.x thing that when installed, is LIGHTNING fast (loading, rendering, etc), but after a couple weeks, its slower than molasis. I've tried all sorts of things to speed it back up with config tweaks, clearing cache, deleting all my bookmarks, didn't seem to help, and the browser I'm using now has none of those problems. It also integrates into my chosen desktop really well, uses the "wallet" system, hooks into my rss reader (which hooks into the rest of the groupware apps), its also an excellent file management application. I can drag and drop between ftp, fish, sshfs, http, nfs, smb, you name it. Also supports split windows, tabs, linking views, and can be tweaked and customized till noone would recognize it. it even allows you to embed a terminal emulator (aka: shell, console, comandline) as one of the split views (split view, kinda like the old Midnight Commander file manager, but lets you resize).