From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 24/02/2026 09:38, Marc Haber wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   > Irrelevant. It's reality now, and noone is working on that   
   > "improvement". You're free to do so, but you're riding a head horse.   
   >   
   >> 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,   
   > I am not sure whether Firefox had tabs back in the times when we had   
   > less than 1 Gig of RAM.   
      
   Indeed. But I suspect a ground up rewrite of Firefox et al would vastly   
   improve its performance.   
      
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