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Looking at the graph: All browsers increase in memory use slightly over time, but the Firefox 3 slope is closer to 0.The _peak_ of Firefox 3 is lower than the terminal size of Firefox 2!The terminal state of Firefox 3 is nearly 140MB smaller than Firefox 2. 60% less memory!IE7 doesn’t appear to give any memory back, even after all the windows are closed!Firefox 3 ends up about 400mb smaller than IE7 at the end of the test!Yay for improvements!

Looking at the graph:

  • All browsers increase in memory use slightly over time, but the Firefox 3 slope is closer to 0.
  • The _peak_ of Firefox 3 is lower than the terminal size of Firefox 2!
  • The terminal state of Firefox 3 is nearly 140MB smaller than Firefox 2. 60% less memory!
  • IE7 doesn’t appear to give any memory back, even after all the windows are closed!
  • Firefox 3 ends up about 400mb smaller than IE7 at the end of the test!
Yay for improvements!