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I've used NW and electron based applications and don't have chrome installed. Why is Chrome needed at all for those to work?

• rtkwe 10y ago
  Electron uses chromium as the renderer.
• detaro 10y ago
  To add to what rtkwe said, I assume the Signal client is a Chrome plugin because as far as I know you can't use GCM push messages with Chromium/NW/Electron, but only in Android and Google Chrome.
  • haffenloher 10y ago
    Signal Desktop does not use GCM. You can use the extension with Chromium or any Chromium-based browser.
    • detaro 10y ago
      Really? Wow, how did I miss that... Thanks for correcting me!
  • baby 10y ago
    it's a chrome app, you can launch it independently of chrome. At this point I don't know why they didn't go the Electron route.