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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by badsectoracula on Thursday May 01, 2025 @10:33AM (#43858223)
FWIW i have a feeling (and it is just a feeling, not something i can confirm) that the entirety of Windows 95 was simpler than Firefox or Chrome today :-P.
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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by lblume on Thursday May 01, 2025 @11:39AM (#43859173)
This is very likely true.

By LOC: Windows 95 is estimated to have 10-15 million LOC, Chrome 30-40 million.

By binary size: Windows 95 took about 50 MB, Chrome 200-300 MB.

By architecture design: the codebase of Windows 95 is fairly shallow and monolithic, while Chrome is very modular (think V8, Blink, WASM, sandboxes...) and uses other dependencies.

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