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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

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.

jeffmcjunkin 10y ago
This is prior versions of Chrome taking up disk space, not memory. That's a completely separate issue.
- tedunangst 10y ago
  Fortunately disk space, unlike memory, is infinite.
  - cmdrfred 10y ago
    I'd much rather you use 21GB on my SSD than 2.1GB of my ram.
    - loeg 10y ago
      Hm. On some machines I only have 8x the SSD as RAM. I might take the 2.1GB to 21GB trade in that case :-).
      - coldtea 10y ago
        Then don't use Chrome on those machines?
    - tedunangst 10y ago
      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?
      - NicoJuicy 10y ago
        Previous versions of chrome...
  - witty_username 10y ago
    21 GB is about 2% of a 1 TB drive. Not that ridiculous.
  - danudey 10y ago
    A lot of our lapops at work (the majority, in fact) have ~240GB SSDs, so that's about 10% of their disks. Not insignificant.
    - sliverstorm 10y ago
      I think your parent was being facetious
  - flamedoge 10y ago
    It's all up in the Cloud
Analemma_ 10y ago
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.
- mschuster91 10y ago
  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
  - claudius 10y ago
    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.
    - kuschku 10y ago
      You can admit it: it’s sci-hub
      - claudius 10y ago
        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.
copperx 10y ago
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.
- acdha 10y ago
  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-battery-friendly.html https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/09/chrome-faster-and-more...
  - copperx 10y ago
    Thanks for correcting me. I had outdated impressions.

jeffmcjunkin 10y ago

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

tedunangst 10y ago
Fortunately disk space, unlike memory, is infinite.
- cmdrfred 10y ago
  I'd much rather you use 21GB on my SSD than 2.1GB of my ram.
  - loeg 10y ago
    Hm. On some machines I only have 8x the SSD as RAM. I might take the 2.1GB to 21GB trade in that case :-).
    - coldtea 10y ago
      Then don't use Chrome on those machines?
  - tedunangst 10y ago
    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?
    - NicoJuicy 10y ago
      Previous versions of chrome...
- witty_username 10y ago
  21 GB is about 2% of a 1 TB drive. Not that ridiculous.
- danudey 10y ago
  A lot of our lapops at work (the majority, in fact) have ~240GB SSDs, so that's about 10% of their disks. Not insignificant.
  - sliverstorm 10y ago
    I think your parent was being facetious
- flamedoge 10y ago
  It's all up in the Cloud

Analemma_ 10y ago

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.

mschuster91 10y ago
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
- claudius 10y ago
  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.
  - kuschku 10y ago
    You can admit it: it’s sci-hub
    - claudius 10y ago
      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.

copperx 10y ago

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.

acdha 10y ago
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-battery-friendly.html https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/09/chrome-faster-and-more...
- copperx 10y ago
  Thanks for correcting me. I had outdated impressions.