DragonDude, I don't know what the hell is going on with your firefox, but Firefox is using 28.584 kB on this computer.. now if I start IE: 38.760 kB
While we're at it:
Netscape: 31.828 kB
Opra: 29.948 kB
Safari (on my mac): 17.836 kB
All of these are the latest versions (except IE, still the standard crap that came with windows).. Firefox never crashes for me, netscape seems to drop connections once or twice a day, opera works great to, but took me a day to get it working, safari owns overall, faster than any windows browser