[ Thanks to James Maguire> for this link. ]
With Firefox 7, which is being officially released
today, Mozilla is taking specific aim at reducing the amount of
memory that Firefox uses. Mozilla has been actively working on
reducing memory usage by way of the MemShrink effort. The goal of
MemShrink is to find areas where Firefox memory management and
usage could be improved.The memory usage in Firefox 7 also benefits from a 20-line patch
that Mozilla developers first talked about in June. The 20-line
patch enables Firefox to start twice as fast on both Windows and
Linux.