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Re:Hacker news unofficial desktop app by current_call on Thursday May 05, 2016 @04:39PM (#11639502)
A browser is like a buggy mini-operating system that hogs resources, tries to replace native applications like PDF readers, word processors, and email clients, and uses JavaScript as its system language. Client applications circumvent the hell of modern web browsers. The benefit is not needing to use a web browser.
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Re:Hacker news unofficial desktop app by tdkl on Thursday May 05, 2016 @04:54PM (#11639596)
Wish there was some kind of a "Electron kitchen" where you could easily make your own app stating which website you want to use in this isolated way, without having to learn about Electron.
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Re:Hacker news unofficial desktop app by NoGravitas on Thursday May 05, 2016 @05:02PM (#11639644)
There's nativefier: https://github.com/jiahaog/Nativefier
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Re:Hacker news unofficial desktop app by tomc1985 on Thursday May 05, 2016 @05:30PM (#11639803)
As mentioned earlier, there's Chrome's "Add To Desktop" option
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Re:Hacker news unofficial desktop app by amelius on Thursday May 05, 2016 @06:18PM (#11640099)
Why not just run Chrome in app (or kiosk) mode?

I use this for reading my gmail. I use the --user-data-dir flag to prevent the "app" from interfering with my other browsers.

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