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A better way to put Google Chrome on a diet is to delete it and download the most recent version from Google. Digging around in application packages is fine if you know what to look for and understand what you're doing. But it's easier and safer for most users to just chuck their current version that's bloated with old updates and just download and install the latest version.

Animated GIFs are usually annoying, as are a variety of other eye-catching techniques that are all designed, of course, for the benefit of advertisers and not readers. Well, the web is free (supposedly), and those who pay the piper call the tune -- for attention-distracting crud like that.

Why doesn't anyone pay their programmers to use those advanced techniques to... I don't know... make the READING experience better? Oh, I think I've already answered that question!

But wait... when I download an issue of the New Yorker or Wired onto my iPad, I get attention-grabbing stuff devoted to MY experience, not the advertisers' pocketbooks. Hmmm... I guess that's because I pay (in part) for my subscription, eh?

GIFs rule, how dare you ruin peoples websites...

Re: Animated GIFs. I use Adblock Plus. Right-click on the offending animated GIF and have Adblock remove it.

Regarding the animated GiFs: How about just popping the "Reader" button next to the URL? Works for me.

Mine was at 2.8GB! Deleted over 20 old versions.

It would've been helpful to this user if the "how" was spelled out better than "check your copy." I used Spotlight to find Chrome, there's no Show Package Contents option by right-clicking. Within Chrome itself, I didn't see any such option. Using Ask.com, I didn't see any such option. Fortunately, the long-time Get Info exists, for that tells me that my Google app takes up 228.4 mb, not as bloated as some, but double itechguy's. My speculation is that's because I have too many bookmarks, for when I delete any, they don't all disappear from my Show All Bookmarks window...I have to click another folder, as if to reset the list, then re-click on the folder where I did the deleting.

brifd, on 07 July 2012 - 11:19 AM, said:

Find Google Chrome within the Applications folder. Right click or Control click and select Show Package Contents from the popup menu. Within Contents find Versions folder...you are there.