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Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

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Re: Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

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Post by mxfh »

superkuh wrote: post #3

4GB should be nothing. It's crazy to me how consumer computer storage has stalled out at the 2010 level for so long. And if anything we're going backwards now in 2026. We should be having many TBs in our home computers and laptops. Instead most users are still stuck with 256GB and trying to tetris around to fit even their average amount of small data.

We're at 2021 prices, but ok.

Re: Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

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Post by SyrupThinker »

alwillis wrote: post #33
Weryj wrote: post #11

And Claude is hogging 12G for Cowork which I don’t want.

That’s mostly because it’s an Electron app. It would be a fraction of that if it were a native app on macOS or Windows.

This is more likely referring to the VM disk image the feature allocates, which would have little to do with Electron.

Re: Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

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Post by astrange »

alwillis wrote: post #34
iamkrazy wrote: post #13

First IE, now Chrome. What gets into these companies heads once they get biggest market share? And the people working for these companies. How do you sleep at night bro?

Six figure salaries and stock options?

RSUs. Way simpler taxes.

Re: Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

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Post by nicce »

SyrupThinker wrote: post #36
alwillis wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s mostly because it’s an Electron app. It would be a fraction of that if it were a native app on macOS or Windows.

This is more likely referring to the VM disk image the feature allocates, which would have little to do with Electron.

Well Electron includes Chromium. Maybe that pulls the 4GB model as well… not sure if it is Chrome only.

Re: Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

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Post by nicce »

alwillis wrote: post #34
iamkrazy wrote: post #13

First IE, now Chrome. What gets into these companies heads once they get biggest market share? And the people working for these companies. How do you sleep at night bro?

Six figure salaries and stock options?

The new book from lady who worked in Meta summarises it.

Re: Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

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Post by Weryj »

SyrupThinker wrote: post #36
alwillis wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s mostly because it’s an Electron app. It would be a fraction of that if it were a native app on macOS or Windows.

This is more likely referring to the VM disk image the feature allocates, which would have little to do with Electron.

This, the vm bundle which reappears after you delete it. They say it's For Cowork and Claude Code, but if you don't use Cowork or CC sandboxing, it has no value. Considering I'm always finding things to delete on apples anaemic 512gb because I run out of space.
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