My extension's "Local Extension Settings" Logfile gets too big

Question

I wrote the chrome extension View Later: click

A user reported, that there is a log file that gets way too big (his was around 3.8GB) that is located at C:\Users\<YOUR_USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Local Extension Settings\hnolaplfoobcmgfmjphkmbjolinelpkb.

I immediately checked at my machine and it was big as well (~300mb). I do not know what is causing this. I use the chrome.storage heavily in my extension (all url's are saved there) but I do not know how this can get so big, as the limit is 512 entries to my knowledge.

Anyone got clues on this?
Thanks!

Answer 1

This seems to be a log of all storage events.

No idea why Chrome keeps it, and I don't think you can do anything to clean it.

It sounds like a bug worth reporting (why is this logging on, and what's the cutoff?).