4

It uses more than 100 MB on my tiny system, I can't really imagine this all just being the configuration of only the chrome browser. How would I reduce its size?

4
  • 2
    Lucky you. I came to this question trying to understand why it's taking 3.7GB on my SSD. Jun 27, 2018 at 6:01
  • 1
    upon verification, it was a buggy extension taking most of that space. Jun 27, 2018 at 6:35
  • @igorsantos07, can you please share - which extension? having the same issue
    – TzurEl
    Jul 22, 2021 at 7:31
  • I have a bunch, and you probably do as well. Use the Disk Usage Analyzer (or similar utility) to check the chrome folders. Then, you look for the extension code (something like ~google-chrome/extensions/9iedfdmgefmgoefm and look for it in the extensions page. Jul 27, 2021 at 20:48

2 Answers 2

3

According to the Chromium projects site it's where the users data directory is. So beyond the configuration it will contain the History, bookmarks, cookies, extensions etc.

To minimise the disk usage, you can uninstall extensions you no longer use and get Chrome to clear it's cache/history.

1
  • 1
    Clearing out cookies and history reduced the size by roughly 50%. That's something, but still more than 50MB remain. The cache lives in ~/.cache/google-chrome/, I had already emptied that out before, so I was surprised to see the .config folder us so much disk space.
    – muk.li
    Jul 30, 2015 at 7:12
0

This is the configuration directory of google-chrome. It contains some user data, history, cookies,extensions and bookmarks, crash reports, application cache and safe browsing data...

To know what is consuming your disk storage you can use:

du -h ~/.config/google-chrome

So you can check which directory/file is consuming your disk storage.

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .