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Originally Posted by Luca
On the Mac, though, each program could be thought of as full-screen and transparent. There is a single menu bar along the top of the screen. When you close all the windows of a program, that program stays running until you decide to quit out of it. This is nice because it ensures that the program stays in RAM. You don't have to wait for it to launch again, just click the dock icon of an already-running program and it'll open a fresh window. Now, I realize Windows kind of does this too - if you launch Firefox and then close it, subsequent launches of Firefox will be a lot quicker. But there's no visual representation of that at all.
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That's because FF is still in the disk cache. Wait longer between relaunches and you'll be back to the original load time. FF isn't still running somewhere in the background when you click X, but its files are still in pagefile.sys.
