61861 - Huge amounts of disk space wasted by Chrome directory

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 53462

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Graham]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001130
BuildID:    2000113004

The Chrome directory isn't actually all that huge, but it wastes tons of disk
space due to the huge number of tiny files -- especially on a dumb filesystem
like FAT.

On a 2gig FAT16 drive with 32k clusters, this is what I see:

    7,956,577 total bytes in 2,690 files
   90,963,968 bytes disk space occupied, 91% slack

You could solve this problem by concatenating groups of files together...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
I collected this statistic using Norton Utilities 8.0's "File Size" utility --
but you should be able to see it just by unzipping mozilla and watching your
disk space drain away...

Comment 1

[Sebastian Späth]

If you download the installer version of Mozilla you'll see that there's not so
many files. All the resource files were put in jar files (basically zip files) a
while ago. The .zip version of mozilla nightlies have still both the jar and the
resource files included, so this is IMHO an INVALID bug.
Feel free to object if you think that's not correct.

Comment 2

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

Well, since you can easily re-generate the flat chrome by simply unzipping the
jars (roughly), it is not necessary to have them in the zip packages. I think
this bug is not really invalid, but more a duplicate of bug 59110 (which is a
duplicate of bug 53462). In any case, this is a known problem.

Comment 3

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53462 ***

Comment 4

[timeless]

vrfy dupe