alyth@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agoA fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the waterlemmy.worldimagemessage-square182fedilinkarrow-up1505arrow-down135file-text
arrow-up1470arrow-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 · 15 days agomessage-square182fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaretaazAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up90arrow-down1·edit-215 days 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-down1·15 days agoThanks for the correction, appreciate it. Not sure it changes much though.
minus-squareeluvatar@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·14 days agoSteam used an embedded browser long before it was cool.
minus-squareAProfessional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·15 days 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.