• Broken_Monitor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      338·
      2 years ago

      Or duckduckgo. Or Brave. Or Opera. Or Tor.

      I have yet to try the last two. I really enjoy duckduckgo on my phone, but I know there was some controversy. I guess I’m lazy but I love the fire button that burns away all your open tabs and history in one click. Started using Brave recently and I kind of enjoy how it reports how much stuff its blocked and the breakdown of what it all is. I have had no noticeable issues with either one.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          25·
          2 years ago

          And Tor Browser is Firefox based, so this is still a two player game. Unless you like navigating a GDPR banner on Lynx.

        • Broken_Monitor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          82·
          2 years ago

          Duckduckgo is a firefox addon for desktop. On iOS it utilizes a fork of Safari.

          The others I’m not sure about, but a quick search shows me that I gotta delete Brave. Damn. Google is fucking insidious

  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
    93·
    2 years ago

    *Badly outdated Chrome with a bunch of critical vulnerabilities.

    Don’t forget every Electron app comes with its own Chrome.

    • qaz@lemmy.world
      43·
      2 years ago

      Last time I checked the version Electron used by Discord was severely out of date causing several issues that had been solved months ago upstream. That’s the fault of Discord, not Electron but there are several issues with Chromium that I have to deal with on every Electron app I use. Compose sequences are still partially broken. I reported it at Chromium but they responded with a video of them testing it on Windows (not with a VM), said they couldn’t reproduce the issue (with a Linux specific input method?!) and then marked it as unreproducible.

        • SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com
          201·
          2 years ago

          They use plain text and there biggest shareholder is the Tencent (the CCP let’s be real) are you surprised? It’s literally a data farm for China…

        • dinckel@lemmy.world
          7·
          2 years ago

          They updated to a version that included a patch for that exploit, however it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, because they’re still on 22.x, support for which has already been terminated

      • halva@discuss.tchncs.de
        10·
        2 years ago

        Problem is, for any somewhat big project (like discord) updating Electron without something breaking is a nightmarishly complex venture as Electron doesn’t seem to care about backwards compatibility.

        • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
          11·
          2 years ago

          The error is in picking Electron in the first place. One particular case that I’ve had with several Electron apps are zombie processes. You close the window, but you check the task manager and see 4-5 processes hanging in there, eating resources for no reason.

          • qaz@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 years ago

            I agree that it’s silly to package your app as a website with a browser but what other options do you have? GTK is difficult to get working on Windows, wxwidgets requires installing libraries on every system and Qt is either paid or LGPL. The only real crossplatform options seem to be Flutter and some .NET frameworks.

            • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
              4·
              2 years ago

              FreePascal + Lazarus have been desktop crossplatform for many years. “But it’s Pascal! Nobody uses Pascal! And the defaults are fugly!”, fair enough, but it offers compatible crossplatform UI with a single codebase.

              Java also lets you write UI stuff and keep a single codebase for multiple platforms, thanks to the JVM. It always looks “weird” or “ugly” next to whatever OS’s default UI is and also needs a compatible JRM installed, but it works.

              Nowadays, web/javascript projects can opt for Tauri or Neutralinojs instead of Electron. They use the OS’s native HTML renderer, no browser required.

    • rdri@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 years ago

      Steam is using CEF v85 (not Electron but still). Should have gone “please be aware to not visit even slightly shady websites until we update it” but instead went “oh you must like security, so we announce that we will drop Windows 7/8 support in half a year (because CEF Microsoft doesn’t support it anymore) so you could play your games more securely”.

      • RacoonVegetable@reddthat.comEnglish
        15·
        2 years ago

        😳 thanks for the heads up. Because if I’m gonna cut myself down there I’m gonna scream like I’m in a Vivaldi Opera. And you know me — I was definitely Brave enough to have some Steamy “Noah get the Ark” action with it, so you literally saved me.

        BTW I heard that Chrome is bad for the environment because it’s so resource intensive. That’s why me and car manufacturers are getting rid of it.

        Plus I hate how it looks and feels. I would much rather get stranded in a Safari than have to stand how chrome looks.

    • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      13·
      2 years ago

      It is not clear from this pictures whether these drums are finger size or building size. Need more perspective!

    • sheogorath@lemmy.world
      21·
      2 years ago

      gluonjs could be an alternative. IIRC there’s another framework similar to Electron that uses native system WebView for rendering and Rust for interfacing directly with the OS, the name escapes me for the moment though.

      Edit: I remembered the name! It’s Tauri

        • sag@lemm.ee
          2·
          2 years ago

          Which is better? Both look promising I want to know which is more lightweight. I am trying to port a electron application to tauri started 2 days ago. I want to make my application fast as possible.

          • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            I haven’t done anything with javascript in over 6 years, so I can’t say which is better.

            This comparison might be useful to you. Tauri gives a smaller executable for Windows compared to Neutralino, but slightly larger for Mac and Linux. Also, Tauri’s build times are orders of magnitude longer (5 minutes vs 1 second for Neutralino), I’d like some confirmation on your part if that’s indeed the case. One thing that really caught my attention, however, is how huge a memory hog Neutralino is on Linux, 700MB for an “empty-app-frameless” project!!

            https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-comparison

            I’m actually curious in trying these two out myself, especially to see if the tauri build times are that bad, and if neutralino’s RAM usage is so high on linux.