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The memory usage of the oldest site in Chromium and Firefox

#html #browser #benchmark #memory

This post is a reply for a comment by @codemouse92 at What's the most wasteful software?

The oldest website still online is a single 2.17 KB HTML file with a 1.37 KB favicon. This is you memory snapshot at Chromium and Firefox:

Chromium 79 (2.2 MB)

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Firefox 72 (0.52 MB)

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