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Post by galfarragem » Sun, Aug 11, 2019, 8:08 AM UTC

sl1ck731 wrote: post #5

I don't know if its just me, but the site runs extremely slow on a pretty well-specced desktop PC. I think there might be too much going on. I gave up trying to scroll through. This is on Chrome 72.

Post by dead_mall » Sun, Aug 11, 2019, 11:15 AM UTC

Post by pjmlp » Sun, Aug 11, 2019, 12:55 PM UTC

19ylram49 wrote: post #13

pjmlp wrote: post #11

My desktop has plenty of features that aren't exposed to the Web, so no, it isn't desktop like.

That’s not how it works. There’s a native bridge that enables you to access and use virtually any native APIs that you’d like to via JavaScript et al. If the native API that you need access to isn’t already exposed by the Electron framework, you can write the bridge code yourself

Post by ComputerGuru » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 3:11 AM UTC

mixedCase wrote: post #6

sl1ck731 wrote: post #5

I don't know if its just me, but the site runs extremely slow on a pretty well-specced desktop PC. I think there might be too much going on. I gave up trying to scroll through. This is on Chrome 72.

That's a fairly old version of Chrome, try updating. It's working well here on Brave (based on Chromium 76) but this is on a high end computer.

Post by nishkalkashyap » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 6:37 AM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #19

penagwin wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a shared electron context, it addresses one of the many critiques of electron (that each electron app is an entirely separate instance of Chrome), so each "sketch" while having the capabilities of electron only have the performance impact of a browser tab. This is especially useful for "utility applications".

Ah utilities of 100MB size then.