So my point here isn't that I feel those features are superfluous, but that that including them wholesale into the web browsing application directly is bloat --

So my point here isn't that I feel those features are superfluous, but that that including them wholesale into the web browsing application directly is bloat -- it would be better served to produce separate applications specialized for those features. Bookmarks, for instance, can be handled in a much cleaner and portable way than isolating them to the specific browser implementation. The same can be said for history, authentication, and so on. Also, to be fair, I wasn't arguing for minimal codebases -- that was your point. I was providing examples for the GP.