[jeffmcjunkin]

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

[tedunangst]

Fortunately disk space, unlike memory, is infinite.

[danudey]

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]

I think your parent was being facetious

[cmdrfred]

I'd much rather you use 21GB on my SSD than 2.1GB of my ram.

[tedunangst]

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]

Previous versions of chrome...

[loeg]

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]

Then don't use Chrome on those machines?

[flamedoge]

It's all up in the Cloud

[witty_username]

21 GB is about 2% of a 1 TB drive. Not that ridiculous.