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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by NetMageSCW on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:32PM (#50409054)
Probably because they have stuff to do in the background and so have to keep the javascript running.
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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by kaelwd on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:58PM (#50409836)
You don't need the whole browser frontend for that though, Electron also includes Node.js which is much less memory hungry.
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