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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by detaro on Thursday May 19, 2016 @04:48AM (#11728864)
To add to what rtkwe said, I assume the Signal client is a Chrome plugin because as far as I know you can't use GCM push messages with Chromium/NW/Electron, but only in Android and Google Chrome.
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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by haffenloher on Thursday May 19, 2016 @07:43AM (#11729425)
Signal Desktop does not use GCM. You can use the extension with Chromium or any Chromium-based browser.
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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by detaro on Thursday May 19, 2016 @08:56AM (#11729761)
Really? Wow, how did I miss that... Thanks for correcting me!
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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by baby on Thursday May 19, 2016 @08:16PM (#11734845)
it's a chrome app, you can launch it independently of chrome. At this point I don't know why they didn't go the Electron route.
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