Why does chrome eat up space?

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EndUser2012-06-26 18:26:58

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EndUser, 2012-06-26 18:26:58

Why is the ancient, several years old, constantly growing installation of fx taking 166 megabytes, of which 124 megabytes is my personal profile with a cache and extensions (that is, 42 megabytes of the actual software),

and a year and a half installation of chromium takes 500 megabytes, of which 450 are different versions of one and the same chrome?!

Who wrote such an installer that saves all versions?

And out of 10 versions, half with a cache of their version!

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kirchevsky, 2012-06-26
@kirchevsky

Is this a rhetorical question?

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egorinsk, 2012-06-26
@egorinsk

The crookcoders from Google probably sit on terabyte disks and don't count the space.
I personally think that developers should use the smallest computers that end users use.

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JDima, 2012-06-26
@JDima

Uncheck "Predict network actions" in the settings. This will drastically reduce caching.

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Nikita Permin, 2012-06-26
@NekitoSP

Backups probably...

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Antelle, 2012-06-26
@Antelle

Weird. I only have two versions: new and latest (I use beta).
And where do you have them? And what channel are you using (stable/beta/dev)?

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EndUser, 2012-06-26
@EndUser

This is a real question. What is the secret plan to keep all versions?