alyth@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoA fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the waterlemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square165fedilinkarrow-up1510arrow-down136file-text
arrow-up1474arrow-down1external-linkA fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the waterlemmy.worldalyth@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square165fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareasparagapple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·edit-25 months agoSignal package has Electron (which is built on top of Chromium and NodeJS) + Signal app code and assets. So not surprised that it’s bigger than Chromium.
Signal package has Electron (which is built on top of Chromium and NodeJS) + Signal app code and assets. So not surprised that it’s bigger than Chromium.