-- Vicky Austin

I've reported in past about issues with Firefox 1.x memory usage and stability problems. Most people report that these problems have not grown worse in Firefox 2.0, and some people say they might be a little bit better. One reader, who wishes to remain anonymous, summed it up this way:

So far, Firefox 2 seems better than the 1.5 versions, though the memory usage issue hasn't really improved much, except for when it comes time for it to close. Now it releases all the [memory] it was using upon shutdown.

Another wrote:

Copy and paste in Yahoo! Web mail is fixed. That used to anger me when I'd try to copy a URL and send it to a friend. Firefox 2.0 seems a lot more stable too. No more crashes when too many tabs are open. -- Gregory Theodosis