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Is it just me or is Chrome getting a bit bloated? I hope it doesn't lose its lightness and speed that made it famous.

• ltamake 15y ago
  No, it's still really light and fast. Prefer it to Firefox to this day. It's gaining features and it's able to do more things than other browsers, but that doesn't make it bloated.
• ryandvm 15y ago
  Chrome is gaining features, yes. However, since with each release the Chrome team manages to eke additional performance out of it, I think it's a little premature to decry it as "bloat".
• william42 15y ago
  As has been mentioned, Google's not going to put in features if it slows down Chrome--they care about speed too. The other problem with adding features, interface bloat, doesn't apply as much either, since most of these features are available for webapps to use, and replace the requirement for Flash, which is the main thing making browsers slow.
• kylemaxwell 15y ago
  Weight and heft aren't the same thing as bloat. Alternately, one person's bloat is another person's muscle.
• nl 15y ago
  Google is pretty aggressive in making sure the binary stays as small as possible. Examples Mar 9 2011, "Binary Size Reduction Task Force": http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/browse_thread/thread/7b30efc17901bb97?pli=1 http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/b... Sep 21 2010, "chrome binary size treemap": http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/browse_thread/thread/aaefd56a3adc44c5 http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/b... and http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/bloat/ http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/bloat/