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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.

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

Fortunately disk space, unlike memory, is infinite.

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

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

Then don't use Chrome on those machines?

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?

Previous versions of chrome...

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

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

I think your parent was being facetious

It's all up in the Cloud

Embarrassing, obvious, multi-year bugs are common to all browsers though. In Firefox, bookmarklets on CSP pages have been broken for 3.5 years and counting, with the end nowhere in sight. A handful of bugs that have taken a while to fix is no way to judge the overall quality of the browser.

It's been a loooooooong time since I've seen the last useful bookmarklet in the wild.

Un-useful, however, was stuff that tried to hijack your FB/Twitter ("hey guys paste this in ur browser and get some n00dz in return"). The amounts of crazy stuff people do for supposed nudes or whatever is just astonishing

I have one in my work browser to redirect a journal’s website example.com to example.com.library.university.example.net in order to get the full access. Having a simple button for this made my life a lot easier, though I admit that it is somewhat of an unusual case.

You can admit it: it’s sci-hub

Actually, no, the library-provided full-access website for APS journals is much nicer. If I want a preprint, I can usually find it on arXiv and last time I looked at it, I found sci-hub to have a rather confusing interface.

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...

Thanks for correcting me. I had outdated impressions.

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