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I do not, please inform me, since as far as I know Firefox was always trying to be featurefull browser.
Maybe they mean lean compared to internet explorer toolbars? But yeah, it's never been minimal. And I doubt this would really add that much bloat memory-wise while running.
Mozilla Application Suite contained an email client and a HTML editor, among other things. Firefox was supposed to "just a browser", so to speak:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox
According to the downvotes, hardly anyone remembers, even Mozilla is falling for feature creep again.
It was a fork off the Netscape Navigator which included a news reader, an email client, a browser and a kitchen sink, from what I remember. They took the browser part out and created Firefox, but it was called something else at first. Firebird maybe? Can't recall.