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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Jul 2016
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OS: Linux , Windows , Mac
Pri: 3
Type: Bug



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Chrome transfer weight report in Network inspector uses incorrect units

Reported by ronan.cr...@gmail.com, Jun 22 2016

Issue description

Chrome Version       : 50.0.2661.102 (64-bit)
URLs (if applicable) : http://1mb.website
Other browsers tested: 
  Add OK or FAIL, along with the version, after other browsers where you
have tested this issue:
     Safari:
    Firefox:
         IE:

What steps will reproduce the problem?
(1) Load http://1mb.website with Network inspector tab open
(2) Once finished, check page transfer size summary in status line at bottom of inspector screen
(3)

What is the expected result?

The transfer weight of the site in question is precisely 1e6 bytes, or 1 MB (by definition). Chrome should report the transfer size as one of 977 KiB, 1000 kB or 1 MB.

What happens instead?

Chrome reports 977 KB. This is arguably incorrect if you accept the SI definition of the term. 

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte

 
Cc: rnimmagadda@chromium.org
Components: Platform>DevTools>Network
Labels: M-52 OS-Linux OS-Mac OS-Windows
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Able to repro this issue on Windows 7, MAC (10.11.5) & Ubuntu Trusty (14.04) for Google Chrome Stable Version - 51.0.2704.106

This is a Non-Regression issue existing from M30 - # 30.0.1549.0
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Comment 2 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jun 30 2016

Labels: -M-52 M-53 MovedFrom-52
Moving this nonessential bug to the next milestone.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
Owner: allada@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
The `ls` command (http://linux.die.net/man/1/ls) defaults to 1024 base and nearly all tools that I'm used to using. So I'm not in any rush to adopt the 1000 base math.

I'd be fine with changing our representation to "977K", dropping the "B". 
It upgrades the information density, so it seems like a win.


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Comment 4 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jul 3 2016

Labels: -M-53 MovedFrom-53
This issue has been moved once and is lower than Pri-1. Removing the milestone.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
It's definitely a tricky issue and the "right" answer goes against some conventions. Note that Google convert says that 1,000,000 Bytes is 1,000 Kilobytes

https://www.google.com/search?q=1000000%20bytes%20to%20KB

Comment 6 by allada@chromium.org, Jul 22 2016

Status: WontFix (was: Assigned)

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