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IE4 -- 11MB IE5 -- 56MB IE6 -- 13MB

Their sizes seem to be off (or including something extra). But there definitely is a huge change in IE5 requirements. I'm guessing that's related to the US v Microsoft antitrust bundling lawsuit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_4#System_req...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_5#System_and...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_6#System_req...

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I wonder if IE 6 could lean more on existing libraries (renderers etc) in the OS itself; maybe the IE 6 version for older systems than Windows XP were comparable in size to IE 5?

That seems likely. What's funny is how Edge (and eventually IE) became even more entrenched in the system than before, yet nobody cares anymore. Almost like the whole thing was a bunch of arm-waving by nerds and regulators that wanted to pretend they knew what was going on.

IE is not the dominant browser anymore and Windows is not the dominant OS anymore (if you consider mobile).

Instead Google got a huge fine in Europe now for being the default search engine on Android.

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