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Firefox is currently 17MB. It's pretty amazing that that size includes (off tge top of my head): JavaScript interpreter/compiler, HTML4 & 5 parser, XML parser,

Firefox is currently 17MB. It's pretty amazing that that size includes (off tge top of my head): JavaScript interpreter/compiler, HTML4 & 5 parser, XML parser, CSS parser, graphics engine, layout engine, WebGL, lots of typographical features, plugin API, extension API, DOM, BOM, developer tools.

ww520 14y ago
Plus Sqlite.
- eloisant 14y ago
  Well, Sqlite is between 4k and 350k depending what features you activate. You can't really blame the bloat on it.
  - mkhalil 14y ago
    But they were saying how it's NOT bloated.
PommeDeTerre 14y ago
It's much less impressive when you consider that Opera offers basically all of that, plus a built-in email client, and built-in BitTorrent support, and a built-in IRC client, and built-in ad blocking, among other features. And the largest Windows installer of the current 12.02 version is merely about 10.5 MB, too.
- mns2 14y ago
  How is bloatware impressive? The vast majority of the world will never need to use any of that. Built-in ad blocking is about the only useful thing you listed, and Ad-Block and ABP are widely used.
  - PommeDeTerre 14y ago
    I think you missed the point. What is impressive is that Opera offers much more functionality than Firefox, yet its installer is nearly half as large. Whether or not the additional functionality offered by Opera is useful is irrelevant to this discussion.