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Re:Browser Bloat (1996) by sitharus on Monday August 29, 2016 @10:28PM (#12387053)
Chrome for Windows on the other hand is 405MB, which is quite an astonishing difference.
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Re:Browser Bloat (1996) by ddeck on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @01:35AM (#12387760)
Chrome for Windows also doesn't remove the prior version when updating [1], so you typically have at least two versions on disk.

[1] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/KRGYQb...

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Re:Browser Bloat (1996) by Viper007Bond on Monday August 29, 2016 @10:58PM (#12387176)
Installed? Or the installer?
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Re:Browser Bloat (1996) by sitharus on Monday August 29, 2016 @11:38PM (#12387362)
Installed. I'm not counting the update files it keeps on disk either.
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