Windows: (only available beginning from version 48) If you really need to use an older version of Chrome web browser, you can try to download the setup installer from the following sites.

The setup installer of Chrome always installs the latest and newest version of Chrome, and to make matter worse, Google does not provide old version of Chrome for download too. Thank you for reading How to Remove Older Versions of Chrome from Survival Guide.Google Chrome web browser does not provide an easy way to download and install an previous version or older version of Google Chrome. Windows users can make use of a great app – OldChromeRemover to remove old Chrome versions from their machine and save disk space. Then I restarted Chrome application and as expected – I found that the space occupied by Chrome has gone down to 80 MB! How to Remove Older Versions of Chrome on Windows I deleted all the old versions of Chrome except for the previous one. As you can see that older versions of Chrome are occupying close to 2 GB of data themselves. You can run the command du -sm * at the same level to get size of each file in MB. When I navigate to /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions - I can find a lot of previous versions of Chrome consuming a lot of space. For example, my current Chrome version is. You will find all the old versions of Chrome app stacked up in this folder. Type /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions and hit enter. Go to Applications -> Utilities and launch the Terminal application. How to Remove Older Versions of Chrome on Mac With time, these older versions start consuming a considerable amount of disk space. Upon further analysis, I found that the root cause of why Chrome consumes huge disk space is that it keeps it’s previous versions. A few KBs were knocked off the space consumed. I went and cleared all the browsing data. The most obvious solution was to get rid of history and browser cache.

Unable to digest the fact that a browser could consume so much space, I started to look at the root cause of the issue. Upon comparison, I found that Firefox was consuming 81 MB and Safari was consuming 49 MB of space. The Google Chrome application was consuming more than 2 GB on my hard disk.

The storage space on my Mac was fast filling up, so I was looking to remove unwanted files, applications, pictures and videos to free up some space on my Mac.

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