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[onedognight]

Slack is just a website you can open in a tab/window. You don’t need to add Electron your browser diet to use it.

[samtheprogram → onedognight]

It’s desktop app that’s built on Electron.

Although, yes, when I’m on resourced constrained machines, I open it in a Firefox tab.

[magicalhippo → samtheprogram]

I run Slack in a Firefox window, and I had to add an extension to reload the page every 15 minutes due to live leaks.

Would cause FF to eat tens of GB, making FF sluggish until it crashed...