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I use Slack exclusively in the browser. Not so much to address CPU and memory usage. Instead it is because I find Slack's loading behavior extremely irritatin
by frompdx 6y ago
I use Slack exclusively in the browser. Not so much to address CPU and memory usage. Instead it is because I find Slack's loading behavior extremely irritating when using the desktop client. When I quit using the desktop app it was because it stole the window context twice while it loaded and was extremely slow to load. This meant if I opened slack it stole my window context and then again once I was already in the middle of doing something else in another window while I waited for it to load. The last time I used the desktop client was three years ago. Maybe that has changed since but I am not interested in giving it another chance.
I will say that Slack imposes some seemingly arbitrary restrictions on what you can do with the browser client. Calling is only available in Chrome, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me since both Google Meet and Zoom work fine in Firefox. I find all to be resource intensive during calls with video, but Zoom is by far the worst.