How Chrome ate 21GB of storage

AstroJetson wrote: post #3

I'm going to post a theory that with 500Gb drives pretty much the normal size that most people won't notice 2.5% tied up in Chrome installs.

Except if you've bought a Lenovo 100s or similar, with 32GB of eMMC Flash storage. Then you'll cry.

Re: How Chrome ate 21GB of storage

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Post by rocky1138 » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 4:51 PM UTC

Does this only occur on Macs?

Re: How Chrome ate 21GB of storage

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Post by richard_mcp » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 4:52 PM UTC

This is embarrassingly bad. I know memory is cheap and mostly plentiful, but to have this as a bug for 5+ years is horrible. It's as though Chrome is going the route of web pages and not paying to the size of itself.

Re: How Chrome ate 21GB of storage

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Post by jeffmcjunkin » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 4:57 PM UTC

richard_mcp wrote: post #6

This is embarrassingly bad. I know memory is cheap and mostly plentiful, but to have this as a bug for 5+ years is horrible. It's as though Chrome is going the route of web pages and not paying to the size of itself.

This is prior versions of Chrome taking up disk space, not memory. That's a completely separate issue.

Re: How Chrome ate 21GB of storage

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Post by ameliaquining » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 5:04 PM UTC

I feel like it's slightly dishonest not to mention that (according to the Chrome devs) this problem is caused by poorly-behaved modifications to the Chrome installer made by third-party redistributors, and not by Chrome itself.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, but not on Chrome.)

Re: How Chrome ate 21GB of storage

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Post by license2e » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 5:05 PM UTC

I installed mine through Homebrew (http://brew.sh/) Cask (https://caskroom.github.io/) and it is fine (only last two versions).

Re: How Chrome ate 21GB of storage

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Post by Analemma_ » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 5:07 PM UTC

richard_mcp wrote: post #6

This is embarrassingly bad. I know memory is cheap and mostly plentiful, but to have this as a bug for 5+ years is horrible. It's as though Chrome is going the route of web pages and not paying to the size of itself.

Embarrassing, obvious, multi-year bugs are common to all browsers though. In Firefox, bookmarklets on CSP pages have been broken for 3.5 years and counting, with the end nowhere in sight. A handful of bugs that have taken a while to fix is no way to judge the overall quality of the browser.