From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-17, Marc Haber wrote:   
      
   > Nuno Silva  wrote:   
   >>I haven't used desktop environments in a long time, I remember the days   
   >>KDE was heavy enough to be a problem with, what was it, 64 MiB RAM? :-)   
   >>   
   >>(The problem might have been not the DE itself, but that it didn't leave   
   >>much to run other not-so-light applications like OOo.)   
   >   
   > In these days the memory footprint of the DE stops counting when the   
   > browser is started.   
      
   And that's another thing that needs to be improved - how did it become   
   so acceptable for some web pages to require so many resources, let alone   
   browsers themselves. I remember the days when the desktop, which had   
   just a bit more of that (384 MiB, perhaps?) could keep hundreds of tabs   
   open (might have been in Firefox back then, in the time shortly   
   afterwards Mozilla tried to give up on the suite (which is what I use   
   nowadays)).   
      
   I know some examples of websites that become so unusable because of how   
   many content they load or because of CSS animations and effects, and   
   that's not to mention the ones which don't work because some underlying   
   framework requires a shiny new feature and is not backwards-compatible   
   when it's not present. Also, at least one site has required webgl in   
   order to work, which I find especially amusing...   
      
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   Nuno Silva   
      
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