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Re:No More Google by bntyhntr on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:08PM (#24974041)
I've also moved to firefox across all my devices. I don't use electron apps. I use google search and gmail both personally and at work.

I'm not really _trying_ to degooglify, I'm just degooglifying when the chance comes up. I'm also not hardcore enough to switch over the email on all my accounts, the people who contact me, etc. And I like free things. So one step at a random time it is.

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Re:No More Google by Wowfunhappy on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:49PM (#24974397)
I don't like Electron either, but is it correct to consider it a Google product? I'm not sure.

Electron is heavily dependent on code developed and maintained by Google, but then so is Node, and Go, and presumably anything written in Go, such as Docker. Calling all of those Google products seems wrong—but it's true that Node would be in big trouble if Google suddenly stopped maintaining Chrome or something.

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Re:No More Google by NomDePlum on Monday November 02, 2020 @06:30PM (#24974706)
I believe the point being made is because Electron uses Chromium they are making an assumption that it has some of the characteristics and possibly tracibility of Chrome.

Not sure if that is or isn't true but I would say it is understandably a different type of worry from using Go or nodejs.

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Re:No More Google by nexuist on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:37PM (#24974303)
Why not use Electron? That's managed by Microsoft, not Google.
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Re:No More Google by bntyhntr on Monday November 02, 2020 @06:28PM (#24974689)
Electron is based on chromium and I want to give non-chromium based things a fighting chance. It also feels like a memory hog and I like running slack in my browser more than as a separate app.

tl;dr nonsensical reasons that don't really stack up but I'm electron free so may as well keep it up

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Re:No More Google by Cyberspy on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:53AM (#24977757)
One of the reasons I don't switch to Firefox full time is that it (still, after many years) leaks memory. Use Task Manager to see how much RAM Firefox is using once it's been open a while.
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Re:No More Google by MagnumOpus on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @09:10AM (#24989176)
It is unlikely you are seeing a memory leak, it is far more likely you are seeing caching. Using spare memory is far better than not using it - and if another app needs it, FF will free it up.
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Re:No More Google by NetOpWibby on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:02AM (#24980204)
Hear hear!
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Re:No More Google by Cyberspy on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:51AM (#24977742)
I doubt many other people here are going to ditch Electron completely - the current 'favourite' dev tool is Visual Studio Code which is an Electron app.

Even though Electron is actually a Microsoft supported platform, I understand the connection with Google - Electron uses Chromium rendering engine. But, this is not the same as Chrome. Chrome uses Chromium [1] but I think all the privacy issues are part of Chrome, not Chromium.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)

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