• 30p87@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    To be fair, Signal, Threema and Discord use Electron, and therefore are just crappy bullshit on Wayland.
    Using a dedicated FF instance uses less RAM, CPU and disk space, and gives you more control over the application/website.

    Discord has a web version, even if it doesn’t support some features, so I use it in FF. WhatsApp has a web version, so I use it in FF.
    Signal does not. So it’s barely usable on my Nvidia desktop.
    We do not need ““native”” Applications, made with a mix of a web version and a D tier browser engine, if we could just use the already installed, better and perfectly working browser.

    • Discords Electron was outdated and vulnerable for years, FF would be patched in days or hours in case of a zero day.
    • Electron uses much more resources than FF. Because every company thinks they need a custom version of electron, every app brings its own bloaty electron environment, despite there being a system one.
    • Electron/Chromium is extremely buggy on Wayland + Nvidia, to the point I cannot use Spotify, Discord or Steam correctly.