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Mozilla already use Coverity http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/05/18/mozilla_and_coverity/ Not to blame anyone but they are probably aware of most bugs and wont go "THANKS we newer knew… " See Bugzilla. Use that instead of blog of “researcher”.
I know up to 50-60 extensions runs just fine but to keep the “original” stability/speed you really need to put more effort in installation than just click away at Add-on site. They do a poor job at informing users that it can go wrong. So is extension developed actively, what are known bugs, does it conflict with FF or other extension and so on. Most of the top 10 or so extensions have had or still have memory leaks or worse problems. Starting to get better thanks to tools like Leak Monitor http://dbaron.org/mozilla/leak-monitor/ (dont run any extension which tricker it - bad QA) but still much “crap” to install. Too bad 1.5.0.x or Flock is part of that “crap” 8) Try Gmail or any Vbulletin forum just for a start. 2.0 is big step forward I think though it might not appear to be a revolution. That is what bug-hunting is about, being done every day.
Size in kb of extension have nothing to do with memory use or how “heavy” it feels btw.
Someone at Mozillazine wrote in a forumpost that they (Mozilla) should do what his company did. Once in a while they did a version of their whatever software with zero new features - only cleanup and optimizations. Who will disagree with that when it comes to Firefox? Known problem but guess unavoidable due to the way it is made. Patchwork, many inputs from many different people etc. And of course the competition, release demand. I still believe they are on top of things and that espeically 2.0 shows it. The somewhat broken/strange new theme is a minor and probably temporary problem, engine room is more important.