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I think you're failing to include the firefox memory usage in that second example. the 200+MB memory of electron is because it includes the browser. Your 8MB fi

I think you're failing to include the firefox memory usage in that second example. the 200+MB memory of electron is because it includes the browser. Your 8MB file also needs firefox to run, so in a naked desktop environment the user first has to spin up 170MB+ of firefox before they can run your 8MB app.

z3t4 8y ago
But you do not need to have five full Firefox's running for using five web-app's. Another benefit of web apps, is that with some effort it can run everywhere, where as an app container like electron needs to have separate builds for each platform.
- roryisok 8y ago
  Agreed that's definitely a drawback. Mozilla had an experimental project called qbrt that was like electron but used the locally installed Firefox, exactly like you're describing. Hasn't been updated in quite a while though