alyth@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoA fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the waterlemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square185fedilinkarrow-up1497arrow-down133file-text
arrow-up1464arrow-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 · 7 months agomessage-square185fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareasparagapple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·edit-27 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.