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I'm pretty sure the deciding factor will be which on can stop a 7.62 x 39 mm round.

http://www.product-reviews.net/2007/04/10/ipod-extended-soldiers-life/

http://www.zolved.com/blog/view_entry/27867/iPod_saves_soldier_but_now_wont_show_up_in_iTunes_Updated

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/02/blackberry-stops-a-bullet-and-saves-a-relationship/

http://blackberrysync.com/2010/02/blackberry-curve-85xx-stops-bullet-from-victims-boyfriend/

http://momento24.com/en/2009/11/03/cell-phone-stops-bullet-saves-womans-life/

http://technology-nuggets.blogspot.com/2008/11/moto-razr-stops-bullet-saves-mans-life.html

You know, I have to start carrying my crappy old cell phone where it can protect more than my upper thigh.

Well I tried with 83 tabs, sorry but I wasn't gonna keep opening tabs. I went from 105Mb to...123Mb from a high of 429Mb with 86 (I already had three including this) open. Did you look at your cache settings? Because by default FF will cache closed tabs for awhile in case you want to undo. If you normally run 100+ for days, which admittedly isn't something the Moz developers test for since Joe and Sally maybe have a dozen tops, you might want to go into about.config and tweak a little.

So while I have no doubt your are having that problem, and I sympathize as I on occasion tend to push some of my software a little hard (I don't know how many times I've crashed Audacity with funky effects) you have to admit that 100+ tabs for days isn't something most folks will normally do, so the defaults probably don't take that behavior into account. So you might want to go in and tweak FF a little, so that behaves a little better with your style. Personally that is one of the things that have kept me on FF, is that between extensions and about.config you can pretty much do anything with it. Anyway here is a guide to get you started, and I personally use the trim on minimize tweak myself. But between that link and this one you should have plenty of settings to try. Have you posted talkback so the devs know? Can't fix what you don't know about, although I agree they should have come clean on FF 2.x. And you can turn off the awesome bar if it slows you down.

Okay seems like everyone and their brother has a different idea and since this interests me I tried to roll up as many of the interesting looking ones as possible into one posting :-) Did I miss any?

http://www.teamviewer.com/

https://secure.logmein.com/products/free/

http://www.copilot.com/

http://skype.com/

http://www.uvnc.com/addons/singleclick.html (reverse VNC)

http://www.crossloop.com/

http://www.mikogo.com/en/

http://showmypc.com/

https://www.ntrconnect.com/

http://www.zolved.com/remote_control

http://www.wippien.com/ (VPN)

http://code.google.com/p/gitso/ (reverse VNC)

If you can set it up beforehand, use UltraVNC single-click.

If you haven't had time to do the setup, point your friend or family member to http://www.zolved.com/rc. They provide a simple exe to download.

The software is basically UltraVNC, but using Zolved servers as a proxy. (yes, this means you have to trust Zolved.com not to spy on you.)

There are a few other things you can do as well.

http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_content/28209/How_to_make_OpenOffice_run_faster_in_Ubuntu

http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_content/28021/U sing_Add_Remove_programs_in_Ubuntu

go home with your arguments from 2002

I don't normally feed trolls, but just in case you're not...

http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_content/28021/U sing_Add_Remove_programs_in_Ubuntu

Is this simple enough?