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Why is it so expensive to develop a web browser?
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Not only do you have to support an insane amount of standards, you need to do it fast. Firefox and Chromium are optimized so much for speed, and nobody will use your web browser if it's slow or uses up tons of ram.
In my experience, Chrome is a RAM hog. I use FF. Are other browsers even worse with RAM use than Chrome?
It's the websites that requires all the memory, the browser can't magically take less memory than what a website demands.
Well, they actually can, but it is not magic, it might not work everywhere, but it indeed involves going against website demands. There is reader view in firefox (that parses a page and gives text and images), there's ublock-origin that alone blocks so much adds and tracking that webpages load faster, there is ''i dont care about cookies'' (that automatically selects the cookie options on your chosen option), etc, stuff that could be implemented in the browser as options for the user just like privacy settings.