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[–] 27 points 3 years ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago*

    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.

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