[simscitizen]

> It is insane that we have to dedicate multiple gigabytes of RAM, have CPUs 1000x faster than we had back with Netscape Navigator

Webpages are applications. Browsers are application runtimes. The main culprit driving high memory usage is not the runtime, but the application.

[viraptor]

That's not really correct. Compare the basic interactive page resource usage to a similar interface made with qt or even .net - it's the runtime that makes the massive difference.