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I hate this. Chrome Apps are nicely sandboxed within Chrome's sandbox. Now everyone is porting their stuff Electron, which has no sandbox. Deprecating Chrome
by lima 10y ago
I hate this.
Chrome Apps are nicely sandboxed within Chrome's sandbox.
Now everyone is porting their stuff Electron, which has no sandbox.
Deprecating Chrome Apps is hurting users by making their systems less secure.
- angry_octet 10y agoI am contemplating extracting the bits of chromium required to just make it an app container, so I can continue to run Chrome apps on the desktop. Since Chrome apps will still exist for Chromebooks it should keep working.
- lima 10y agoI fear that app developers would abandon their Chrome apps in favor of Electron.
- rfz 10y agoSeems to me that devs would only be smart (read: not in our favor or best interest) to go where the people are; what's the ChromeOS userbase compared to that of other OSes?
- angry_octet 10y agoI don't care about ChromeOS, it's cross-platform, offline capable, secure and sandboxed applications I want. How much easier to distribute just the Chrome App engine to hundreds of varying Windows boxes, than the individual apps?
- rfz 10y agoI was agreeing with you.
- angry_octet 10y agoElectron misses some core native application type features because they are not available to it. I can't see them coming to HTML5 either. It is just a colossal stuff up all round.