Why browsers are bloated

https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WebCore/platform/Scrollbar.cpp
https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WebCore/platform/win/ScrollbarThemeWin.cpp
Let's reinvent the fucking scrollbar, which every goddamn platform with a UI already has, and make it behave subtly different from the native one!

Right-click a native scrollbar in some other app:
- Scroll Here
- Top
- Bottom
- Page Up
- Page Down
- Scroll Up
- Scroll Down

Right-click a scrollbar in Chrome:
- Back
- Forward
- Reload
- Save As...
...

Right-click a scrollbar in Firefox and Opera:
Absolutely fucking nothing happens!

What the fuck!? How did these terminally retarded idiots get involved in creating one of the most important pieces of software to the average user?

>>968
You're asserting that k strategy [1] is always superior.

This is not always the case, it is environment dependent. In terms of parasitic factors (ie our whole consumerist race to exhaust resources [2]) is viable only as long there is enough resources. Sure that computing shifted from r to k, but there's also potential to shift back provided there is enough environmental pressure.

For example, costs of energy rising faster than moore's law, moore's law ceasing to apply, or post-pubble deflationary market ceasing to be the driver of moore's law altogether.

At that point we'll slowly revert back to r strategy, as that would be simply more optimal to succeed in the market.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_virulence#Trade-off_hypothesis