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by awiesenhofer 497 days ago
Sorry, but a Chrome developer complaining about 1.4MB being too "massive" is just the funniest thing ever! xD
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The entire offline installer of over 15 years worth of features is 120 MB for Windows, it's quite impressive really considering the amount of features that includes. If they took the typical approach of web pages run in Chrome that might be multiple GB by now.
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