What Happens to Recycled Computers? (2019)

While it's notable that you could run Netscape on 8GB of RAM in 1996 (for the whole system), it's even more impressive that the minimum requirements for Firefox have remained at 512MB since 2010 (until at least 2019, the time article was written).

However, browsers are not a great benchmark either: they are practically virtual machines running unsafe apps (web sites), and what (and how many simultaneously) sites they can run is limited by how much resources you have.