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Why are (mobile) browsers so big?
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this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2023
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100mb isn't that big these days, bud.
But it should be.
Better technology and more storage should never excuse a lack of optimization.
I'm not up to speed on the optimization levels of mobile Web browsers, but these days you rarely see properly optimized consumer software. Games and websites tend to be the worst offenders, and many mobile apps appear 10x the size you would expect them to be.
Imagine the utopia we would live in if every website was as beautiful as this https://perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com/
True, but I'd still like to see the explanation for why a mouse driver needs to be 300MB...!
Rgb.
Ah, of course! And it does have extra buttons too. Remarkable they squeezed all that advanced engineering in under half a gigabyte, tbh. I clearly didn't think it through!