Re: Firefox

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> Web browsers are bloated monsters.
> (side note: just as desktop environments or even operating systems.)
> Does anybody have a bookmark for an article with a balanced view on degree
> of responsibility of
> - web site developers,
> - users,
> - browser developers
> in respect to browser resource consumption?

Reminds me a "recent" rant of mine:

    https://oldbytes.space/deck/@monnier/113290809168999071

The breadth and complexity of current HTML (which includes at least CSS,
Javascript, and SVG, all of which can be nested in each other) means
a competent browser is inevitably large.  When you view simple webpages,
Firefox is clearly bloated (I count 8 processes for a vanilla `firefox`
visiting my trivial last-century-style home page at
https://www-labs.iro.umontreal.ca/~monnier/, with an RSS of at least
100MB).  But that does not increase very much when visiting "reasonably
complex" pages, so when you get to multi-GB it's usually squarely the
fault of a web site.


        Stefan