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by dotinvoke 805 days ago
The complaint that Chrome eats all your RAM is because it starts a new process for each tab, with all the overhead that entails. You’re not using multiple tabs in an Electron app.
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No instead I run 50 standalone browsers with one tab each on my machine ...
The overheard prevents any one tab from taking out the entire browser though.
Chrome has good reason to use multiple processes, but criticism of Chrome doesn’t necessarily apply to Electron apps.
That’s not the complaint lol