Chrome Web Store: show extension memory footprint in the install confirmation dialog
Reported by
woxxom@gmail.com,
Feb 4 2017
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Issue descriptionThis is a feature suggestion for the dialog displayed by Chrome Web Store after users press "Add to Chrome" button (see the attached screenshot). Since 1) many extensions add lots of code into *every* page by injecting content scripts, and 2) many users open lots of tabs (100+), it'd be good if Chrome Web Store displayed the size of injected code and the added memory footprint estimate based on the typical code-size-to-runtime-environment-size ratio. I believe this will motivate extension authors to avoid injecting jQuery and other big JavaScript frameworks into *every* page instead of using plain JavaScript code. The end result will be faster loading of pages (since content script injection takes time), less overall memory usage for Chrome, and consequently better performance.
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Feb 6 2017
Thanks for the report. Considering this as Feature request and marking as Untriaged. Requesting Dev team to check the issue and update accordingly.
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Mar 27 2017
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Nov 10 2017
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Nov 10 2017
We'd love to be able to do something like this, but the first step is being able to accurately make an estimate of extension memory usage - which is itself very difficult. We're pursuing a few different approaches in this area, though, and definitely agree that extension resource consumption is a common problem.
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Nov 12
This issue has been Available for over a year. If it's no longer important or seems unlikely to be fixed, please consider closing it out. If it is important, please re-triage the issue. Sorry for the inconvenience if the bug really should have been left as Available. For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
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Nov 16
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Comment 1 by woxxom@gmail.com
, Feb 4 2017