Maybe in comparison to bare-bones or stripped down type affairs, yes. But for competing browsers.Ex-Cyber wrote:It's definitely bloated compared to browsers that avoid bloat as a major project goal, such as Dillo.Nick wrote:How is Firefox "bloated"? That's ridiculous to call Firefox bloated.
Not everybody replaces their computer every year, and even low-end systems sold today still have 256MB or 512MB. Web browsing is not Doom 3 or Oblivion, FFS. Outside of things like Flash and Java it's not really justifiable for the requirements to keep going up, and even with those it's questionable.[/quote]Nick wrote:And it only takes up like 70 MB RAM or something like that, which isn't that much when you should probably be rocking at least 1 GB or more.
It worked fine on 512 MB too, with Windows Media Player running as well.
I'm going to assume that 70% of people buying a new computer with either 256 MB or 512MB RAM these days will probably also use Internet Explorer, which uses less RAM than Firefox, since it's loaded (or partially loaded) when the system starts.
People complain too much. :\ I used IE for years, never got any spyware or viruses, and didn't rock any protection software. Now that Firefox is gaining in popularity, people start bitching at that too. If you make a web browser, you can't win. You just can't win. It's impossible.