alyth@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoA fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the waterlemmy.worldimagemessage-square170fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1imageA fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the waterlemmy.worldalyth@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square170fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaretaaz@biglemmowski.winlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-25 months agoSteam is close but actually not electron, they use CEF - Chromium Embedded Framework which is something Electron uses too under the hood (afair)
minus-squareAProfessional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoElectron doesn’t use CEF, they directly bundle Chromium.
minus-squareeluvatar@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoSteam used an embedded browser long before it was cool.
minus-squarezoey@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoThanks for the correction, appreciate it. Not sure it changes much though.
Steam is close but actually not electron, they use CEF - Chromium Embedded Framework which is something Electron uses too under the hood (afair)
Electron doesn’t use CEF, they directly bundle Chromium.
Steam used an embedded browser long before it was cool.
Thanks for the correction, appreciate it. Not sure it changes much though.