Firefox rant redux

The article isn't great, but it does point out some Firefox issues that I ranted about some days ago:

Statistics are hard to come by, but our own experiences with the browser include crashes, memory hogging, molasses-slow page loads and the spinning beach ball of death. The problems are even worse for Mac users, so much so that last month, Firefox developer Colin Barrett broached the question on his blog: What sucks about Firefox on the Mac?

Links:

• Weird article: More Firefox Bloat? Say It Ain't So, Mozilla
• Slashdot post: Firefox Going the Big and Bloated IE Way?

Memory leaks seems to be the biggest problem. For example: I have restarted Firefox at least 5 times today and still the damn application manages to eat 30% CPU and consumes 300 MB memory (while being idle) - notice that only 3 tabs are open:

I have removed most extensions and I have tried to disable caching (none of these "fixes" did help).