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by dx87 2526 days ago
Software running in a browser is probably going to heavily sandboxed and have tight restrictions on what it can access since the purpose of a browser is to run untrusted code. Native software will usually have minimal sandboxing because it's supposed to be trusted, and can do anything the user running it could do.

As far as performance, I think that only applies to apps like Slack and Spotify that use Electron to pretend to be a native app.