[gingerbeardman]

Hi

As a long time user I've watched the size of the app steadily increase over the years, I upgraded to the most recent version today and it's a 300MB download and 750Mb (798MB) install on macOS.

I inspected the app to see that the majority of the size are frameworks and libraries and I had to stop and wonder: what is it all for and is this really the best way to structure it? I'm a software developer so I understand about frameworks and libraries and other dependencies, but I also understand about optimising their use, static vs dynamic linking, and other techniques and best practices to reduce file size. QtWebEngineCore.framework alone constitutes half of the size of the app.

Apparently, according to Wikipedia, version 3.10.0 from 2017 was 75MB download and 200MB install on macOS. So in 5 or so years the app has increased in file size by a factor of more than 4x.

Interested to hear any thoughts on this.

Thanks!
matt