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For what it's worth, it only uses that when adding an account initially to display the login webpage. The CEF is not used in normal operation of the app. It app
by MarkSweep 9y ago
For what it's worth, it only uses that when adding an account initially to display the login webpage. The CEF is not used in normal operation of the app. It appears the app's GUI is created using OpenGL.
That said, I could not get the app to work with Google Hangouts or Facebook Messenger after 5 minutes of fiddling, so I gave up.
- pritambaral 9y agoIt still downloads half a GB.
- hiimnate 9y agoWhy in the world would they do that? Can't they just launch a normal browser window or something? Downloading 500MB of chrome bloat just to display a login window seems ludicrous.
- amedvednikov 9y agoeul requires cookies for authentication. Initially it was decrypting Chrome cookies, but this was rightfully detected and flagged by antivirus software. I'll switch to Servo in the future, it's only ~20MB.
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