[alterom]

>A product like Chrome probably has 10,000-ish features, maybe more.

It doesn't have 10,000-ish features that take 4GB of space.

Chrome doesn't take 40TB on my hard drive.

The machine I'm typing it on has 10GB free right now, and that was after I cleaned it up. I noticed the hard drive filling up when I was doing nothing, but I didn't suspect Chrome of all tihngs.

[brookst]

Ah, so it’s not so much “nobody asked for this”, it is more “this is a pain for my specific and unusual use case”. Also fair, just a different thing.

[alterom]

>“this is a pain for my specific and unusual use case”.

Since when "being tight on storage space" is a "specific and unusual" case?

That's the whole marketing strategy of selling devices with small built-in storage (and no expandable storage, as iPhones do).

In any case, not wanting a ~150MB installation file to silently download and shit a ~4GB file all over your filesystem is not an unusual* case.

As sufficiently many people have pointed out.