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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2026
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Everything is a Browser.
No chance.
Of course a chat program needs a 4GB electron app. That's the bare minimum to match 1990s ICQ.
I remember moaning about icq gobbling 75k.
There are plenty of IRC clients that don't use electron.
I think it was a comment on the use case for an app not really changing but the resources to run it bloating significantly.... E.g. software running on a computer with MB of ram then and now the app alone requiring GB.
did you know Edge has a fucking task manager?
shift-esc to see the bullshit
It's a fork of chromium, which has it.
AFAIK Firefox also has one.
Yeah so does ff
TIL, thanks!