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Originally Posted by Carpetsmoker

I'm not sure if "counting dependencies" is a good way to count the "code footprint". Both Chromium and Firefox are huge, and include some components that other "light weight" browsers outsource to a dependency.

Compile time might be a better metric. Last time I tried, NetSurf took five minutes, Firefox took about an hour, and Chrome took about nearly three hours (and then failed to link), with make -j4 on a quad‐core amd64.