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When I build the Chromium browser from source, the size of the final "out" folder is about 60-62 gigabytes. Yet when I download and install either Chromium or Chrome using a binary file (which extracts all the necessary files for the browser to work), it is barely 250 or so megabytes big.
Why is there this huge difference?
I would really like to use Chromium that I build from source myself, but if it really will take that much space permanently, it just doesn't make sense.
Marko J.
Posted 2015-11-21T20:52:36.520
Reputation: 21
Try using the strip command on each executable file to remove symbols. Review your build configuration.
– sawdust – 2015-11-22T02:09:25.343I remember when browsers fit on a floppy. 62 gigabytes is a lot of floppies. – Keltari – 2015-11-22T02:21:30.313