[smoyer]

I'm not disputing that the image may not add anything to the article but if a 10MiB GIF image can crash your browser maybe you should look at other vendors. I'm on Firefox Developer Edition with approximately 100 tabs open and didn't notice that image as a resource hog.

[throwaway_pdp09]

It's animated (and there are 3 on that page totalling 35MB). Some systems unfold each frame into its own image and store that.

Please open firefox to that page, leave it open for a few minutes and observe the memory. I suspect FX will bloat too.