Monday, December 29, 2014

Is it safe to remove old Chrome extension versions?

I just looked how I can slim down my home directory and noticed that Chrome's .config directory is unusually big. More than 600 MB in my case.




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Most of it is occupied by by the Google Play Music extension (fahmaaghhglfmonjliepjlchgpgfmobi). As you can see in the screenshot, the directory contains a lot of versions which accumulate to a lot of wasted disk space. All other extensions have a maximum of two version (although the reason for this may be that they just don't have a lot of updates).



I don't think it's unreasonable to keep one or two versions in case the newer versions mess things up. But I would like to get rid of most of these unnecessary versions.



Can I just delete them or will Chrome act up? Is there a (non-)secret way to do it from the GUI?

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