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by discreditable 3450 days ago
I'm not a fan because if I have 50 electron apps I have 50 builds of chromium/nodejs. This is bad because:

* Lot of wasted disk space.

* Each app loads a whole chromium/nodejs: lots of wasted RAM.

* The chromiums may not all be the latest. This could be bad if those have network exposure: https://sobersecurity.blogspot.mx/2017/01/looks-like-you-hav...
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izacus 3450 days ago
They're also bad platform citizens. Even in minor details - e.g. they don't exclude their browser cache dirs (which of course aren't in the OS cache dir!) from TimeMachine backups, so the incremental backups get clogged by random image caches. Accessibility is limited. Right click doesn't work. And more and more.
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baldfat 3450 days ago
> Right click doesn't work. And more and more.

MacOS? I fail to see that this is the way it works in RStudio, VS Code and Atom???

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izacus 3450 days ago
It doesn't in Slack and some other Electron apps. You just get generic "copy" popup and bunch of functionality is awkwardly bunched into hidden click menus which make me think there's an issue with creating these menus.
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baldfat 3450 days ago
https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/2232

Looks like it was addressed in 2015 but I don't think the other applications used the fix.

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