Re:Why the M2 is more advanced that it seemed
by nolist_policy on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @05:16AM
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Yes, and people often forget that web browsers provide 100% backwards-compatibility to 100s of legacy web standards. Of course that bloats things up, see also Windows.
Also, parent is maybe refering to the source code size? Which also includes a huge chunk of ChromeOS code.
You're also off by 15x. Installed size is 247MB on Debian. https://packages.debian.org/trixie/chromium
Chromium is one of the most amazing fully featured bundles of computing the planet has ever built. We should be in awe. But, "this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." Contempt is rampant.