> It really seems like it makes sense that browsers really "need" the bloat; it has got to the point where it ends up being the most useful and most used applic

> It really seems like it makes sense that browsers really "need" the bloat; it has got to the point where it ends up being the most useful and most used application on any OS, for a given section of the end-user base, anyway. Effectively the browser has in the GUI age become what the terminal emulator was in the CLI age. On its own the browser do jack all. But it allows remote resources to present a local UI. Thus my lowly desktop PC can become a virtual supercomputer.