Using F3, I never have excessive memory-consumption problems.
Keep jazzing stuff up, and of course you add memory usage as well as footprint in disk space, etc.
Note that on pages 3 and 4 of the .pdf, the author describes the increase in memory usage between F3 and F4 as "
appalling".
Aod people keep wondering why F3 is my default browser, except where diagnostics require F(whatever is the latest).
Also interesting: OP is from almost a year ago, eagerly awaiting F4, which came out shortly thereafter (April?) with MZ's dire warnings that "F3 will be supported for only a short period of time. Please update immediately blah blah".
And six versions later, plus two in alpha, they're *still* supporting F3.
Looks like not as many users went for the appalling memory usage, rapid-release, test-it-on-the-user theory as they thought. Much as the monstrous flop of Vista forced MS to continue support for XP through April 2014, or almost *thirteen years*, more than any other MS OS in history -- including MS-DOS versions.
dhouwn wrote:/edit: BTW, why is this thread in Security and not Web Tech?
Because, if you look at the OP and those immediately following it, issues with security, patches, hotfixes, etc. were among those given for the gloomy prognosis.
Hmm...interesting.