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Re:How Chrome ate 21GB of storage by copperx on Saturday September 17, 2016 @01:34PM (#12521459)
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.

Re:How Chrome ate 21GB of storage by acdha on Saturday September 17, 2016 @05:25PM (#12522536)
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...

Re:How Chrome ate 21GB of storage by copperx on Saturday September 17, 2016 @05:59PM (#12522704)
Thanks for correcting me. I had outdated impressions.