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    Only 4 times the size?! That's amazing considering how much more a modern browser does Commented Sep 24, 2015 at 11:37
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    As a side note, i believe 'some rule that programs will take all available memory no matter how much it is but why?' probably refers to random access memory rather than physical disk space, at least that would be my interpretation of it. Could be wrong. Commented Sep 24, 2015 at 13:40
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    So what you're saying is that a program that once took up $10 worth of hard disk space now takes up about 30 cents worth of hard disk space? I find this hard to worry about. Commented Sep 24, 2015 at 14:21
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    “The programs are not doing significantly more functions” — good lord man. Just take a look at the HTML 4 spec and the CSS 1 spec (don’t worry, I’ll wait — it won’t take you long even if you read them). Netscape 4 didn’t even manage to implement those properly. Just the amount of new and crazy HTML and CSS that Chrome supports is considerable. Plus it has tabs. And updates itself every six weeks. Commented Sep 24, 2015 at 22:29
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    BTW. 50 MB in Netscape times was large, but, for the record, it included not only web browser but also mail client and HTML editor, and maybe even something else. Commented Sep 25, 2015 at 17:18