@tartley like to be totally clear, the thing which has led us here is nothing to do with features, it's 1) the internet is wildly popular. 2) people make a lot of money selling advertising and advertising adjacent things on the internet. 3) more or less entirely unregulated companies grinding cash bucks at everyone's expense. browsers are complex for a lot of reasons, mostly to do with the fact that they need to correctly run roughly every website in existence, and are a huge target for malware.