I can appreciate what you're saying here, although Firefox on my box doesn't actually crash or lock-up with a similar load you're hinting about. I do dislike the memory usage though - the pain becomes dreadfully apparent whenever I bring Firefox back up to the foreground after doing a harsh I/O operation with another program (eg. working with files over 500MB).
Stability-wise, I could believe that IE *might* be more stable, although I am running 22 extensions in Firefox currently, which add who knows what level of instability to the browser.
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I can appreciate what you're saying here, although Firefox on my box doesn't actually crash or lock-up with a similar load you're hinting about. I do dislike the memory usage though - the pain becomes dreadfully apparent whenever I bring Firefox back up to the foreground after doing a harsh I/O operation with another program (eg. working with files over 500MB).
Stability-wise, I could believe that IE *might* be more stable, although I am running 22 extensions in Firefox currently, which add who knows what level of instability to the browser.