From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 24/02/2026 07:22, Nuno Silva wrote:   
   >> 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)).   
   >   
   Sadly the days of the thin client are gone: the current economics of   
   hardware, and indeed the whole internet, heavily bias the world towards   
   distributed processing power but centralised data.   
      
   Ram is (or was) cheap as is internet bandwidth and CPU/GPU power - so   
   let's build an general purpose GUI called a 'browser'   
      
   > 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...   
      
   Indeed. And yet what is the alternative? javaShit™ may be utter   
   bollocks, but it does what people like to use - in particular highly   
   interactive web pages.   
      
      
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