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A 1.4MB binary size cost is massive. I'm a chrome developer and our threshold for what you need to explain the cost/benefit of is 16KB.

To me this just isn't worth the cost.

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Fwiw just the country flags are 77kb if you use the Twemoji ones like Firefox does. Fancy shiny ones area bit bigger I suspect.

Interesting. That's a lot more plausible. Reopened the bug.

Wow cool!

Sidenote, I'm the maintainer of the polyfill for this and its little script that extracts just the country flags from Mozilla's Twemoji font [0]. I'm not an expert by any stretch, but if it's in any way helpful that I chime into that Chromium bug then let me know. I'd love to deprecate the polyfill.

[0] https://github.com/talkjs/country-flag-emoji-polyfill/blob/m...

But this just means that numerous websites are going to offer different versions of that same 1.4Mb download to make it work for themselves.

Sorry, but a Chrome developer complaining about 1.4MB being too "massive" is just the funniest thing ever! xD

The entire offline installer of over 15 years worth of features is 120 MB for Windows, it's quite impressive really considering the amount of features that includes. If they took the typical approach of web pages run in Chrome that might be multiple GB by now.

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  59 requests 1.2 MB transferred 3.1 MB resources

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