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Isn’t possible to replace Chrome with another lightweight browser engine?

• pjmlp 8y ago
  It is called web widget in most desktop OSes.
• snarfy 8y ago
  An alternative to Electron is Webview[1]. For OSX and Linux it's based on WebKit. For windows it uses IWebBrowser2. It's a tiny shim around the OS's browser control. [1] - https://github.com/zserge/webview https://github.com/zserge/webview
• gitgud 8y ago
  Chrome spent considerable effort making sure things "look the same" across many OS's and hardware. The argument I've heard, is that With lighter weight browsers you begin to lose that consistency across platforms, so chrome is currently the best solution. What if you were able to do some kind of pruning with chrome to remove as much dead code from an Electron project. A hello-world in Electron would surely allow compression opportunities, rather than a full chrome instance, right?