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They mentioned React is missing timing information in the devtools profiler. This was actually added in React 19.2 which should be helpful for debugging. https://react.dev/blog/202…

ShareX uploads videos in a pipeline: record, optimize, then upload. Loom does this while the video is being recorded to give you the link as fast as possible.

Slack tracks close to the latest releases of Electron. Election also tracks close to the latest Chromium releases [0]. [0] https://releases.electronjs.org

It gets difficult when you have users saying they can't connect to each other. Then you have to get a better grasp on networking to understand why they can't, sometimes staring at …

Can you elaborate on which security protections are not used by Electron, and by extension Min?

It's probably worth mentioning that WebTransport just shipped in Chrome 97 (2022-01-04), which seems to be a worthy successor to WebSockets [0]. It allows for reliable and unreliab…

Their comment is in reference to Hayao Miyazaka's thoughts on a particular AI-based animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc

I appreciate that yourself and other folks are engaging in the community to request improvements. Prior to the group being formed, most discussion regarding MV3 occurred on the Chr…

I am an extension developer, but have resigned from engaging with development in the ecosystem. One of my extensions has >300k subscribers on the Chrome Webstore which will be kill…

Thanks for mentioning this. I've been aware of this group since its announcement, but have been ignorant of the ongoing discussions. Hopefully Google and others are receptive to so…

As someone who is intimately familiar with the Chrome extensions internals and is not employed by a big tech company, I believe most of the changes seem like a step in the right di…

I've been working on adding better support for browser extensions in Electron. It's an absolutely necessary feature for web browsers. Maybe OP can have a look: https://www.npmjs.co…

For those not in the know, 4242 is used as a common test card number. https://stripe.com/docs/testing#cards

Wouldn't this completely break accessibility support of such web apps? This is part of the reason why omitting the DOM and rendering a UI with WebGL isn't the best idea. Maybe this…

Desktop and window capture is included for all platforms as part of WebRTC.

Tired of walled gardens and increased limitations of Chrome extensions, I'm building enough of the web extensions API to let me run them in my own desktop browser. Eventually I pla…

Content decryption through the Encrypted Media Extension (EME) web standard. https://www.w3.org/TR/encrypted-media/

At the time of the article, Chromium Edge hadn't been released yet with PlayReady CDM integrated. The followup article I wrote elaborates on these options further. https://blog.sam…

The code included in the GitHub repository downloads the closed source Electron binaries. Just for comparison, the full source would look something more like what's accessible here…

I feel you regarding Chromium, I use Firefox as my daily browser. As for building my own browser, Electron/Chromium just seems like the most achievable option to empower individual…

I'm honestly not sure about the legality of downloading from another distributor. I do know that distribution requires a license [0]. The risk doesn't seem worth it to use such a w…

Oh! That makes sense, they must have moved it from Issues to Discussions. Thanks, I'll update the parent comment.

Brave also started out this way—building a browser on top of Electron. [0] Building something on top of the Chromium project is still building a browser. You're right that it's not…