Is Google's Chrome worthy of 500MB+ ssd space

[Jleo]

Hi Guys,


A recent ssd sys drive install has me thinking about how tight fisted I should be with My Precioussss 250GB worth of 3D vertical NAND flash chips

The Chrome installed files on the ssd was totaling half a gig for a browser is this Kerazzzy? so I'm considering sym linking it to a partition on a 7200rpm. Have any of you? anything I should consider before hand?

to admin if there was a better place for this post my sorriesss and please movesss it.

thank you
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Gollum

 

[Jleo]

Hey db,

I have been a Chrome user for a few years and do use the apps and such so it may not have actually expanded to 500MB 'til I logged in

 

[Jleo]

Thanks for the feed back guys and as it happens I found that even though the application could be sym-linked to a 7200rpm partition albeit with a start-up speed reduction. Chrome also stores and caches to the ssd in the appdata folder so what's 500MB when the app data folder is carrying 1.9GB

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[Jleo]

That is probably the user profile and cache (mainly cache)

My google folder in appdata is 160MB as I have cache on ramdisk.

I think the default for max cache size is 2GB, you can always use command line options to limit the size and also to relocate the cache.

--disk-cache-dir=
--disk-cache-size=

Really down to personal preference tho

Thanks must have a mosey at that

Update: Gig-savers
The feed back on the thread has been very useful guys, specifically info on your chrome folder sizes so I did some cleaning i.e. I had a look at the contents of my chrome folder and found unity.3d references with some alarmingly large files. Knowing that this related to games I inspected Chrome extensions and found a whole haul of old junk gaming and other extensions that I no longer use as a result of the clean-out the folder size went from 1.9GB to a tiny

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