John Olinda A Windows XP virtual machine launches faster than some browsers.

Mark Dain Ouch. That's what, 2-5 seconds? What browser is taking that long?!

John Olinda Chromium browsers and Firefox Developer Edition. I get that browsers are very sophisticated these days, but man, what happened to Chrome being the light browser? I should be thankful though, it's not nearly as bad as when I was using OS X.

Mark Dain I suppose it shouldn't be that surprising. I've heard people say browsers are a mini OS given the number of APIs they have; file access, networking, 2D/3D graphics, camera, microphone, process isolation...