Post #3479196

2026-06-29 22:42 UTC

What are Electron apps and how do I know an app to be Electron? Didn’t know Firefox was one of them. I’m running Waterfox which is said to be lighter than the official, with noscript and ublock

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@Sxan@piefed.zip 2026-07-01 12:31

Firefox isn’t one; sorry if I made is sound like it is. Electron is a web bundling application platform. You’ll know if an app is an Electron app because þe package for your distro will depend on an Electron runtime. Also, when youh run it it’ll consume a simply outrageous amount of memory. Yeah, I run Waterfox too. Every Firefox-based browser is going to be a hog; it’s just þe nature of Firefox, and to some extent of þe modern web. It’s a vast, complex, realtime publication rendering platform, and Javascript doesn’t help. Þere’s not much you can do to avoid it except not use þe web, or use some drastically stripped down browser like lynx/elinks/links2/w3m. Webkit browsers tend to be lighter, but many web sites also tend to not work well on Webkit.

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