How Chrome ate 21GB of storage

Re:How Chrome ate 21GB of storage by jeffmcjunkin on Saturday September 17, 2016 @12:57PM (#12521268)

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

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Re:How Chrome ate 21GB of storage by tedunangst on Saturday September 17, 2016 @01:30PM (#12521434)

Fortunately disk space, unlike memory, is infinite.

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Re:How Chrome ate 21GB of storage by danudey on Saturday September 17, 2016 @02:10PM (#12521637)

A lot of our lapops at work (the majority, in fact) have ~240GB SSDs, so that's about 10% of their disks. Not insignificant.

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Re:How Chrome ate 21GB of storage by sliverstorm on Saturday September 17, 2016 @04:13PM (#12522230)

I think your parent was being facetious

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Re:How Chrome ate 21GB of storage by cmdrfred on Saturday September 17, 2016 @01:46PM (#12521524)

I'd much rather you use 21GB on my SSD than 2.1GB of my ram.

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Re:How Chrome ate 21GB of storage by tedunangst on Saturday September 17, 2016 @02:43PM (#12521790)

It's usually easier to reclaim RAM than storage. Which application am I not using right now? vs What data will I never need again?

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Re:How Chrome ate 21GB of storage by NicoJuicy on Saturday September 17, 2016 @03:09PM (#12521904)

Previous versions of chrome...

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Re:How Chrome ate 21GB of storage by loeg on Saturday September 17, 2016 @01:50PM (#12521538)

Hm. On some machines I only have 8x the SSD as RAM. I might take the 2.1GB to 21GB trade in that case :-).

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Re:How Chrome ate 21GB of storage by coldtea on Saturday September 17, 2016 @03:00PM (#12521861)

Then don't use Chrome on those machines?

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Re:How Chrome ate 21GB of storage by flamedoge on Saturday September 17, 2016 @03:24PM (#12521982)

It's all up in the Cloud

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Re:How Chrome ate 21GB of storage by witty_username on Saturday September 17, 2016 @01:48PM (#12521529)

21 GB is about 2% of a 1 TB drive. Not that ridiculous.

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