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		argsnd on Nov 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flatpak Is Not the Future I didn’t think that binaries would take up so much space, but Firefox 83 (the last x86-only release) is 73MB vs Firefox 84 (the first universal release) which is 126MB. Wow, I guess that makes sense then.

Gigachad on Nov 23, 2021 [–]

Firefox would be a bigger codebase than the whole Linux kernel so it makes sense.

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