SPOTLIGHT: Firefox 3 beats IE7 and Opera in memory tests?

Firefox has never exactly been known for being light in terms of its memory footprint (ever waited for the browser to start up in OS X?) but if word from Mozilla offers any indication, that could change. Mozilla engineers claim that work to reduce memory leaks and the RAM profile of Firefox 3 have resulted in a lean-mean browsing machine that uses less memory than either IE7 or Opera 9.5 beta. I'll believe it when I see it. Article