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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.)
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> 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. What do you mean ? if I download Chrome from the official website I get a third party installer ? because I have the exact same problem with that very official installer.
It looks like the linked article has been updated at the end to clarify. It sounds like some third party extension's installer (e.g. DivX) is reaching into Chrome.app and mucking with permissions (setting owner to root). Not sure why they don't install into "/Library/Internet Plug-Ins" (maybe it doesn't work with chrome anymore?) (Edit: but a comment in the linked bug report suggests that this may also occur if Chrom…
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Even with 1TB disk space I'm resentful of the amount of space "leaked" by software. Maybe I'm a naz-, maybe I was born in the MB era.. can't say. The other day I booted a P3 era machine and seeing all we did with "just" 128MB made me feel chills all over.
I blame the perpetual-beta mentality along with lazy development practices. Used to be, we specced out exactly what was in a release and no more. Now, it's just whatever they can cram in under a deadline without all that "unnecessary" optimization. I'm probably as guilty as anyone else; I like getting a paycheck and so I keep my mouth shut, even though shit like that literally keeps me up some nights.
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In this case, there is no need to proactively scan anymore. It was reported by users. I stressed the wrong thing before. If it can not be fixed, say so.
How do you propose third parties modifying installers without Google's knowledge or permission something Google can fix?
> I’m happily walking away from this with an extra 21GB in my pocket! And now I ask you: is your Chrome bigger than mine? Given I don't have to rely on third party updaters, I doubt it. Let's see... $ let size=0; dpkg -L chromium | while read path; do if [ -f "$path" ]; then let size=$size+$(du -sb "$path" | awk '{print $1}'); echo $size bytes, $(($size/1024/1024)) megabytes; fi; done; 172060669 bytes, 164 megabytes…
heh, nice user@t61:~$ let size=0; dpkg -L chromium | while read path; do if [ -f "$path" ]; then let size=$size+$(du -sb "$path" | awk '{print $1}'); echo $size bytes, $(($size/1024/1024)) megabytes; fi; done; 162190110 bytes, 154 megabytes user@t61:~$ du -sh .{cache,config}/chromium 386M .cache/chromium 84M .config/chromium
zod@DESKTOP MINGW64 ~/AppData/Local/Google
$ du -sh ~/AppData/Local/Google
2.9G /c/Users/Zod/AppData/Local/Google
Both Chrome and Opera pull this shit. It's unbelievable they aren't fixing this.
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.
Chrome has gone the way of IE. Chrome is memory and energy hungry (and now storage hungry if you believe this article), and Google doesn't care. If you run Chrome on a laptop, you better plug it in.
https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/09/chrome-faster-and-more...
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heh, nice user@t61:~$ let size=0; dpkg -L chromium | while read path; do if [ -f "$path" ]; then let size=$size+$(du -sb "$path" | awk '{print $1}'); echo $size bytes, $(($size/1024/1024)) megabytes; fi; done; 162190110 bytes, 154 megabytes user@t61:~$ du -sh .{cache,config}/chromium 386M .cache/chromium 84M .config/chromium
I win? :P zod@DESKTOP MINGW64 ~/AppData/Local/Google $ du -sh ~/AppData/Local/Google 2.9G /c/Users/Zod/AppData/Local/Google Edit: I do have 885 tabs open. (yikes! D:)
is that intentional, or do you just never close tabs? How do you navigate tabs without losing your mind?
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Chrome has gone the way of IE. Chrome is memory and energy hungry (and now storage hungry if you believe this article), and Google doesn't care. If you run Chrome on a laptop, you better plug it in.
Google “doesn't care” so much that they spent the last year working on battery life: https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/09/chrome-faster-and-more...