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Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by matzipan on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @12:10PM (#11168307)
Why is WebRTC bloat? A lot of people us it for video calls nowadays. Pocket is a neat solution for avoiding having lots of tabs eating your memory, which in turn ends up causing page swapping and messing with your experience.

"pdf are bloat for most mortals"

That's alright, it means in 99% cases it's just a very small javascript file on your disk. No harm done.

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Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by khedoros on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @02:17PM (#11169369)
Bloat is relative and subjective. I've never used WebRTC, Pocket, or Loop/Hello, so I'd consider them bloat. On the other hand, I need to deal with PDFs fairly frequently, so it's convenient to have a browser that supports them. Someone else is going to have different requirements. I don't have a problem with that, but I'd prefer to have an option to disable or remove the features that I don't need or want.
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