• rumschlumpel
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    2710 months ago

    A lot of the time, the alternative would be a website running in the browser.

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      10 months ago

      I’d prefer that. One firefox instance can easily run 10 big fat websites while using like 6GB of RAM. 10 electron apps on the other hand? 32GB RAM won’t be enough.

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      610 months ago

      Electron IS a browser. It’s a Chromium browser to be exact with all the Chromium UI elements except the very bare minimum removed.

      So the only difference that remains is running a website in a tab or in a fancy window.

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        I know that Electron is a browser. But the issue is that it’s a different browser, and AFAIK Electron applications don’t share libraries etc. like Chrome/Firefox tabs would, which makes Electron apps even more inefficient than web apps.