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okket on Aug 25, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Essential Electron

A decade ago you would have been shot for suggesting to run every (web-)app in this own 50MB+ browser environment/jail.

Times are a-changing and memory is cheap these days.

creshal on Aug 25, 2016 [–]

A decade ago Mozilla's XUL-based HTML+JS interfaces, and the programs built in it – Firefox and Thunderbird – were all the rage.

NeutronBoy on Aug 25, 2016 | [–]

And the concept of 'web apps' barely existed.

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