[nmglug] hard disk usage

[Ed Brown]

BrianO'Keefe wrote:
> I see that mozilla in my home directory is using 826.8MB and obj-firefox
> in that directory is using 335.5MB. Is that normal? I knew Mozilla and
> firefox were big but this seems extraordinary. 

This isn't the program size, it's most likely the cache, which is 
configurable.  You can also clear it at anytime.  Go to Edit ->
Preferences -> Cache

Beagle's eating 527MB
> too. Maybe I should dump it. It only works occasionally anyway.

That's what I did (dumped it).  Besides eating diskspace, it eats 
cycles.  Very annoying.