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How to Shrink Firefox Portable Installation

When I unzip my FF Portable Installation, it's rather large, 210G with 46,594 Files and 31,274 Folders.

I deleted the cache before making the installation, what else can I remove? The unzip time is about 20 minutes because of all the tiny files being extracted.

it runs fine after loading, it's just that what I have isn't really portable.

Running Win 10 64 bit.

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Confusing

I'm a bit confused what you're asking here. We don't use ZIP files. The Firefox Portable 109.0.1 install is only 418MB. What are you zipping and unzipping? Did you download a bunch of files into the FirefoxPortable directory for some reason?

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I Guess That it is More of a

I Guess That it is More of a Firefox Thing

All the additional space is from my profile. Lots of itty bitty files in that.

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Not Normal

That's not normal. At least if your claimed 210GB is correct. Normal size for a Firefox profile is 1GB tops.

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