First time building Firefox from source, and I'm surprised its repository takes about 5 GB of disk space...

btw, it's FF/ESR 115 branch (inspired by the i2pdbrowser choice)

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Mar 28 · 6 weeks ago

3 Comments ↓

🚀 lars_the_bear · Mar 28 at 09:50:

I'm curious to see how long it takes. I used to build FF from source to get ALSA support back in, but it took three whole days at 100% CPU.

🚀 jwinterm · Mar 28 at 11:55:

This seems insane :0 is there something in particular that takes so much disk space like video decoders or something?

🚀 LucasMW · Apr 10 at 13:45:

Long history and enormous codebase certainly contribute to size.