Cable Forum - View Single Post - According to Add/Remove programs, Firefox is 23.5Gb!

mart44 · 01-06-2006, 07:56

Someone on the Firefox forum reported a file size of 963Mb in Add/Remove Programs. 23.5Gb certainly tops that! In any event, it seems the reason for the wildly wrong figure is given in the page that Strzelecki linked to. It's not an actual file size, just an error in the way the Windows is reporting it. If you find that worrying, maybe reinstalling Firefox would cure the problem. Anything in the Registry that lets Windows know the size of the Firefox installation would then get written again.

If you go to the Firefox folder in Windows Explorer and right-click on it, maybe the real file size will be shown in 'Properties'. For a true estimate of how much disk space Firefox is taking up, perhaps the Profiles folder should also be added to that figure.

01-06-2006, 07:56	#10
mart44 Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: South of England Posts: 253	Re: According to Add/Remove programs, Firefox is 23.5Gb! Someone on the Firefox forum reported a file size of 963Mb in Add/Remove Programs. 23.5Gb certainly tops that! In any event, it seems the reason for the wildly wrong figure is given in the page that Strzelecki linked to. It's not an actual file size, just an error in the way the Windows is reporting it. If you find that worrying, maybe reinstalling Firefox would cure the problem. Anything in the Registry that lets Windows know the size of the Firefox installation would then get written again. If you go to the Firefox folder in Windows Explorer and right-click on it, maybe the real file size will be shown in 'Properties'. For a true estimate of how much disk space Firefox is taking up, perhaps the Profiles folder should also be added to that figure.