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Were adblock and flashblock available for Safari or Chrome (and I believe this is in development for Chrome), and were Chrome available as a Mac version, I would stop using Firefox overnight.

Adblock has been available for Safari for years now. You can get it here:

http://safariadblock.sourceforge.net/

A Flash block addon for Safari is also available:

http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html

While Safari doesn't have the same ease of plug-in support as Firefox, there's enough for most people who want to make the switch.

The other missing thing from Safari was something as basic as session saving and crash protection. You have to buy Saft for that. With Firefox, it's free.

try SafairStand for session saving and crash protection, among other things, and its free.

Session restore? SafariStand works great, and brings a whole raft of other features as well, such as click-to-play Flash.
Ad-blocking? I use SafariBlock with Rick752's EasyList.
Both are free.

I can't comment on your issue with Safari's memory usage, as I haven't experienced the same problem.

The session *is* saved, and you can restore it using History - Reopen All Windows From Last Session.
If you want this to happen automatically when Safari starts up, you could install SafariStand, which does this and a whole lot more for free.

As for the memory issues... I don't know which browser uses more memory, but I sure know which one feels slow and unresponsive on my machine, and it's not Safari.

Not natively, but SafariStand allows you to do this, amongst other things. And yes, it still works under Safari 4.

SafariStand would be the solution, granted, you have to set it up. But it's easy. Presently, I use g for Google, img for Google images, u for Ultralingua (definitions), fe for Ultralingua, translation from french to english, ef for the reverse, v for Versiontracker, i for IMDB, wp for Wikipedia, and a few others...

http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html

This is just one of the many functionalities brought by SafariStand.

This plugins does exactly what you want, and more (like blocking flash, which is why i discovered it) - Safari Stand http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html

D'oh. Just to test it before I submit this reply I 'option clicked' a link on this page. It downloads the link. You mean 'command click'.

I recommend adding Stand to Safari as soon as possible. It contains an option to override all requests to open a link in a new window and redirects them all to new tabs, unfocussed but you can probably alter that.

It's a very difficult setting to stop using once you're used to it.

I was bit dubious at first, but the patch includes source code. I did install the supplied binary, though...

What I'm really surprised about however is the fact that a) a third-party developer can fix a problem like this at all, and how easily the fix can be hooked into Safari. It appears that this OpenStep/Cocoa framework stuff is really flexible...

Oh and yes, it does work!

FYI, French mac site Macbidouille recommends a fix: CookieMonsterFix.
I ran it against 10.2.8 + Safari 1.0.1 (v85.6) and it looks like it works. The readme says it works with Panther as well.