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Re:Fastmail Desktop App by uasi on Monday October 13, 2025 @03:39AM (#45565772)
Thunderbird is no different than Electron apps, though. It's built on a browser engine, renders UI written in HTML + CSS (+ XUL partially), consumes ~500MB of RAM on idle, etc.
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Re:Fastmail Desktop App by array_key_first on Monday October 13, 2025 @11:56AM (#45569806)
That's because thunderbird is a full featured application. It contains a browser because you can actually use that browser. It's not using the browser as a mere presentation engine.
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