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esailija on Jan 21, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: JavaScript web apps considered valuable

Firefox and Chrome are application platforms, like your OS. It doesn't make sense to count them. They don't only run youtube, unlike VLC which is only a media player. Otherwise VLC counts as 20 GB (or whatever) for the OS as well.

kuschku on Jan 22, 2016 [–]

Then Firefox and Chrome loose again, though.

Because then you have the 7GB OS + 95MB Firefox + 100kB YouTube vs. the 7GB OS + 30MB VLC + 2MB youtube-dl

And, additionally, the browser is just a document displayer, like a PDF viewer, or an image viewer. 135MB for that is far too much in any case.

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