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From a privacy and security standpoint, can some help make Mighty make sense? I just don’t see it. Yes, Chrome does hog my RAM and CPU, but my browsing experien
by 19ylram49 7y ago
From a privacy and security standpoint, can some help make Mighty make sense? I just don’t see it. Yes, Chrome does hog my RAM and CPU, but my browsing experience is simply not bad enough to just throw in the towel and give in to a MITM
- carlosdp 7y agoI mean, I agree. It seems like a backwards-facing technology. Smartphones and netbooks are getting better and better processing power, that power should be harnessed, not just ignored. Besides the obvious privacy and security issues, I can see how you could get customers in the short term with savvy sales and marketing, but trends in development and tech don't seem to support this being a sensical approach for the future. I mean, one of the examples given is Slack. Slack is already web-based, if you run it as a browser tab, you don't use much extra CPU/memory. But many run it in the Electron "desktop" app. Why? Because it's more integrated with the operating system and more like a first-class citizen app. That will be solved now with PWAs and the new Web APIs being worked on, it's just a matter of time imo. When all these electron-based apps can just re-use the already running Chrome browser's rendering engine, and still look like a standalone app, who cares how much CPU Chrome uses? It'll be basically the only UI app running on the whole machine.