Was getting sick of Firefox 3.6 taking up tons of memory, so I did an experiment with a couple browsers.

The experiment involved the following:

•  24 tabs / sites open at a time (same ones)
• Same bookmark count on all

Browsers tested on a MacBook Pro:

• Safari (latest)
• Firefox 3.6
• Camino 2.0.x
• Chrome beta

So based on the criteria the memory footprints were as follows:

• Safari - 250 M
• Firefox 3.6 - 350 M (remember the days of mosaic 2m install?)
• Camino 2.0.x - 175 M (better)
• Chrome Beta - 65.5 M (nice, more memory to work with)

I using Chrome from now on.