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?

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You're doing the equivalent of asking a C64 democoder why she chooses to continue working on a highly constrained 32-year-old platform. I'm more interested in redefining attitudes towards software complexity and engineering than reinventing the Internet, by taking a relatively complex standard and making a simple implementation of it.

HTML/CSS/JS is complex but my main argument is that complexity is far less than what contemporary implementations lead one to believe. Or perhaps that complexity is just from attempting to handle edge-cases that are not at all important in reality; that's why I'm trying to write a standards-compliant (or nearly so) browser, to prove what can be done.

Or if you want to be cynical, this is my "embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy.