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by reustle 3204 days ago
I also live in the browser and prefer everything to be in it, but I do know plenty of people who prefer their desktop apps, especially some windows users.
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Some of us Windows users want our apps to be native, otherwise I might just as well use the browser.
Useful for alt-tab.
You can just drag out the tab to popup another window to get a working alt-tab flow
I'm on Gnome, different windows of the same application get grouped together. Useful to have the different logo, and separate from the browser.

No reason this has to require an electron wrapper, you could do it with the 'save to desktop' options, not sure whether any browser actually offers it yet though.

On macOS it's slightly different, and the separate chrome windows won't get the same treatment as a separate app.