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Folder `Local Extension Settings` grows exponentially (10GB +)

Open powellnorma opened this issue 5 months ago • 0 comments

This is due to some extensions like uBlock origin creating a copy of storage.managed in storage.local:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/b5fae233292e71df411baa0ae0dd11ac76864128/platform/common/vapi-background.js#L1475

And currently storage.managed is the same storage instance as local:

https://github.com/samuelmaddock/electron-browser-shell/blob/a160f7137e57ef99751e2c9a1f2d7937481c3601/packages/electron-chrome-extensions/src/renderer/index.ts#L529

powellnorma avatar Jun 30 '25 17:06 powellnorma