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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by wcarss on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:34AM (#16975927)
not intended to be a hostile ask here, but do you know any specific bugs to check out?

As a past (very minor) contributor to chromium+webkit I'm curious if there's anything one can do to help, but I haven't kept up with their status in a long time.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by muszc-master on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:44AM (#16975979)
Specifically the image bug, as another commenter linked to: http://seenaburns.com/debugging-electron-memory-usage/
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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by opencl on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @10:35AM (#16977238)
Is this even considered a bug by the Chromium team (i.e. is there any indication of plans to fix it, or is this just the image cache working as intended)?

It's a 10 year old project and memory usage has always been fairly high, I don't see any indication of a major focus on reducing it anytime soon.

I don't hate Electron apps or anything, but the ones I already have open are using up enough of my memory that there isn't much left to run more of them. I really do hope this improves in the future though. If not I may just have to buy more RAM.

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