[lxjum]

Minification of scripts in an extension can only have nefarious purposes. It isn't worth it in terms of bandwidth.

[zamadatix]

You must not have read past the title:

- The linked page covers why they needed to do it

- A chromium bug report on that issue was linked (i.e. they tried to get the limit removed properly)

- "* Encode the rules as data rather than generated code" was the idea of a chromium developer in that bug report