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-square183fedilinkarrow-up1508arrow-down136file-text
arrow-up1472arrow-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-square183fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaretaaz@biglemmowski.winlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up90arrow-down1·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-squarezoey@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down1·5 months agoThanks for the correction, appreciate it. Not sure it changes much though.
minus-squareeluvatar@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 months agoSteam used an embedded browser long before it was cool.
minus-squareAProfessional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoElectron doesn’t use CEF, they directly bundle Chromium.
Steam is close but actually not electron, they use CEF - Chromium Embedded Framework which is something Electron uses too under the hood (afair)
Thanks for the correction, appreciate it. Not sure it changes much though.
Steam used an embedded browser long before it was cool.
Electron doesn’t use CEF, they directly bundle Chromium.