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Yeah. I was using a Nexus One for a long time until I had to prune so many apps due to space that it wasn't worth using. I got a new phone, HTC One S (I neede

Yeah. I was using a Nexus One for a long time until I had to prune so many apps due to space that it wasn't worth using. I got a new phone, HTC One S (I needed a t-mobile branded phone for wifi calling) with several gigs of system partition space, and now I have to play that game again. I recognize that there are a bunch of features now that I get to enjoy, but now I have to choose which ones I want to keep. When I switched, 20MB was a big app. Now I have at least 30 apps that are bigger. Chrome in particular seems bogus. The desktop version isn't even this big. Chrome : 211MB Facebook: 116MB Google search: 70MB Google+: 65MB Amazon: 60MB Mantano Reader: 54MB Dropbox: 50MB Google Play services: 50MB Google Text-to-speach engine: 45MB Hangouts: 35MB t-mobile my account: 33MB SwitftKey: 33MB Kindle: 30MB Evernote: 30MB BaconReader: 28MB twitter: 25MB Hulu: 25MB Google Maps: 24MB Google Drive: 24MB <...> I do recognize that these apps balance the data differently. Chrome is 189MB app, and facebook is 80MB data.

nkozyra 12y ago
I have the latest Chrome for Android and it's 65MB for the app. Still large, but nowhere near 190MB.
- gcb0 12y ago
  did you disable cache somehow? open a bunch of ssl pages and see app data space explode. same happens with firefox
  - nkozyra 12y ago
    I did not disable cache and it shows a large amount of cache data. But the post I responded to claimed 189MB of app data.
  - AjithAntony 12y ago
    The cache doesn't seem relevant but I could test that. Presently my breakdown is 189MB+21MB , App+data, and 13MB Cache. Uninstalled. Reinstalled. (play store reports 30MB download) Before opening the app 65MB+4KB, 0MB cache First launch (no sync sign-in) 65MB + 10MB, 60KB cache Browsed Noisy SSL page (google plus feed): 65MB + 14MB, 13MB cache Signed into sync: no change ( 10min later, no change) Browsed image heavy site (imgur): 65MB + 14MB, 25MB cache Does chrome store the old versions on upgrade? That would perfectly explain why my fresh install is 64MB, and my older isntall was 3x that size.
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    - derefr 12y ago
      It does on the desktop: Omaha, a.k.a. Google Updater, follows a "keep a few recent versions around and just symlink the current one" model to enable atomic upgrades and rollbacks of failed upgrades. If Android Chrome manages its own updates, it's likely using Omaha for them.
- kitd 12y ago
  Likewise on my Moto G running 4.4.4. 65Mb app 22Mb data = 87Mb total Cache is recorded separately, currently at 205Mb. I wonder if it is a question of how the figures are being displayed in different versions of Android.
gcb0 12y ago
used nexus one until couples months ago. even with all ext sd card hacks, i couldn't install firefox on a clean install. app space is the only reason i generated more garbage in the world even though my current device only lacked the software to use the memory i had available.
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lugg 12y ago
For what its worth, the chrome Mac OS X version of google chrome is 331.9 MB on disk. Doesn't seem bogus to me.
- ivanstojic 12y ago
  The OSX "show info" dialog block shows the file size in disk blocks, as opposed to the actual bytes of file content. There might be a misunderstanding between people because the "real" file size is different than the "actually occupied" disk size. This is of course aggravated by lots of small files.
  - lloeki 12y ago
    Just to be sure: $ du -h -d 0 /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app 317M /Applications/Google Chrome.app $ tar -c -f - /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app | wc -c tar: Removing leading '/' from member names 331683840 $ find /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app -type f -print0 | xargs -0 cat | wc -c 331010107
    - AjithAntony 12y ago
      On win8, the total Chrome dir is 450MB, but that includes two versions, and a backup of the installer of the latest. Excluding those and the flash plugin, the running Chrome's (37.0.2062.120) contents are 115MB.
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fencepost 12y ago
I'm reinstalling right now to test, it shows as a ~28MB download. I feel pretty confident it's not cached data in my case, as I don't use the Chrome browser on my phone (I prefer Dolphin with gestures & LastPass integration), and on a tablet I only use it for logging into wifi hotspots. .... And after the reinstall it shows up as 65MB of app.
- pmontra 12y ago
  Dolphin is affected too.
  - fencepost 12y ago
    Checking.... Dolphin is a little weird on its own with the separate browser and "Dolphin Jetpack" (basically its own custom-built webkit engine). Looking before removing Dolphin, Dolphin is showing 13.82MB of App plus 42MB of Data (which I believe could mostly be moved to phone storage). Also 2.3MB of cache. Jetpack is showing 18.67MB of App, 4k of Data. After reinstalling both and a first run of Dolphin (and restoring a slightly out of date backup for bookmarks, etc.), Dolphin is using 13.80MB of App and 4.66MB of Data, while Jetpack is using 18.67MB of App. I'm not seeing the same thing happening with Dolphin as with Chrome.

nkozyra 12y ago

I have the latest Chrome for Android and it's 65MB for the app. Still large, but nowhere near 190MB.

gcb0 12y ago
did you disable cache somehow? open a bunch of ssl pages and see app data space explode. same happens with firefox
- nkozyra 12y ago
  I did not disable cache and it shows a large amount of cache data. But the post I responded to claimed 189MB of app data.
- AjithAntony 12y ago
  The cache doesn't seem relevant but I could test that. Presently my breakdown is 189MB+21MB , App+data, and 13MB Cache. Uninstalled. Reinstalled. (play store reports 30MB download) Before opening the app 65MB+4KB, 0MB cache First launch (no sync sign-in) 65MB + 10MB, 60KB cache Browsed Noisy SSL page (google plus feed): 65MB + 14MB, 13MB cache Signed into sync: no change ( 10min later, no change) Browsed image heavy site (imgur): 65MB + 14MB, 25MB cache Does chrome store the old versions on upgrade? That would perfectly explain why my fresh install is 64MB, and my older isntall was 3x that size.
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  - derefr 12y ago
    It does on the desktop: Omaha, a.k.a. Google Updater, follows a "keep a few recent versions around and just symlink the current one" model to enable atomic upgrades and rollbacks of failed upgrades. If Android Chrome manages its own updates, it's likely using Omaha for them.
kitd 12y ago
Likewise on my Moto G running 4.4.4. 65Mb app 22Mb data = 87Mb total Cache is recorded separately, currently at 205Mb. I wonder if it is a question of how the figures are being displayed in different versions of Android.

gcb0 12y ago

used nexus one until couples months ago. even with all ext sd card hacks, i couldn't install firefox on a clean install. app space is the only reason i generated more garbage in the world even though my current device only lacked the software to use the memory i had available.

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lugg 12y ago

For what its worth, the chrome Mac OS X version of google chrome is 331.9 MB on disk. Doesn't seem bogus to me.

ivanstojic 12y ago
The OSX "show info" dialog block shows the file size in disk blocks, as opposed to the actual bytes of file content. There might be a misunderstanding between people because the "real" file size is different than the "actually occupied" disk size. This is of course aggravated by lots of small files.
- lloeki 12y ago
  Just to be sure: $ du -h -d 0 /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app 317M /Applications/Google Chrome.app $ tar -c -f - /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app | wc -c tar: Removing leading '/' from member names 331683840 $ find /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app -type f -print0 | xargs -0 cat | wc -c 331010107
  - AjithAntony 12y ago
    On win8, the total Chrome dir is 450MB, but that includes two versions, and a backup of the installer of the latest. Excluding those and the flash plugin, the running Chrome's (37.0.2062.120) contents are 115MB.

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fencepost 12y ago

I'm reinstalling right now to test, it shows as a ~28MB download. I feel pretty confident it's not cached data in my case, as I don't use the Chrome browser on my phone (I prefer Dolphin with gestures & LastPass integration), and on a tablet I only use it for logging into wifi hotspots. .... And after the reinstall it shows up as 65MB of app.

pmontra 12y ago
Dolphin is affected too.
- fencepost 12y ago
  Checking.... Dolphin is a little weird on its own with the separate browser and "Dolphin Jetpack" (basically its own custom-built webkit engine). Looking before removing Dolphin, Dolphin is showing 13.82MB of App plus 42MB of Data (which I believe could mostly be moved to phone storage). Also 2.3MB of cache. Jetpack is showing 18.67MB of App, 4k of Data. After reinstalling both and a first run of Dolphin (and restoring a slightly out of date backup for bookmarks, etc.), Dolphin is using 13.80MB of App and 4.66MB of Data, while Jetpack is using 18.67MB of App. I'm not seeing the same thing happening with Dolphin as with Chrome.