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It's not like they're trying to cram in a music player or IDE in to an Electron app. This is a browser so I wouldn't expect the load to be substantially worse than running Chrome.
And you wouldn’t expect atom to use more memory than sublime, either.
I tried this a while back, and the only thing I liked better than the mainstream browsers was that it doesn't waste space at the top of the browser and thus would theoretically be a good fit for e.g. watching something in a small window in the corner of your screen while doing work. But in practice, there is some crazy minimum window size limitation and thus it's useless for the only use case I would have for it.
Based on Electron. So this is Chromium, but with less features? EDIT: It also claims less battery consumption. May I ask some proof?
A. FUCKING. ELECTRON. BROWSER. ಠ_ಠ Just so I don’t get this comment killed, here’s some text calmly explaining that electron is based off blink, and implementing a browser in it is like using a text editor’s scripting feature to reimplement the cursor.
Firefox has been switching from their custom markup (XUL) to HTML for its UI, and you’ll find that the web inspector in Chrome, Safari and Firefox are already implemented in HTML/CSS/JS (don’t know about Edge).
Based on Electron. So this is Chromium, but with less features? EDIT: It also claims less battery consumption. May I ask some proof?
A. FUCKING. ELECTRON. BROWSER. ಠ_ಠ Just so I don’t get this comment killed, here’s some text calmly explaining that electron is based off blink, and implementing a browser in it is like using a text editor’s scripting feature to reimplement the cursor.
Based on Electron. So this is Chromium, but with less features? EDIT: It also claims less battery consumption. May I ask some proof?
A. FUCKING. ELECTRON. BROWSER. ಠ_ಠ Just so I don’t get this comment killed, here’s some text calmly explaining that electron is based off blink, and implementing a browser in it is like using a text editor’s scripting feature to reimplement the cursor.
The difference from chromium is that the browser ui is implemented using the web tech, instead of native, which is not unusual either.
Firefox have been using slightly modified version of html and javascript to implement the browser ui forever.
Vivaldi and brave browsers use the same method as well.
Ignoring the general 'Electron seems a waste of resources' (with which I partially agree with) comments: Requires 'Ubuntu' or 'macOS'? I seem to know a lot of Electron based apps that run on other Linux distributions or - gasp - even Windows. Clicking on the 'Download anyway' link brings up the GitHub release tab. With, among others, a file called 'Min-v1.6.3-win32-x64.zip'.
Having it only Ubuntu/macOS seems counter-intuitive.
> and get suggestions before you even start typing I really don't want that!
Which is the main downfall of DuckDuckGo they use as the smart bar search engine.
If you want good suggestions and smart personalization you need to track your user.
If you don't want to track your user for privacy concern, it's all good but then don't give user a product like suggestions that will always be subpar compared to someone else that is for user tracking.