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To be fair, I'm not even sure if Slack cares about web users at all. It just doesn't work that well, at least for me. (Though I obviously haven't tried it in a

• aembleton 4y ago
  I think the desktop slack app is built on electron so is built to render properly in chrome.
  • jchw 4y ago
    It's true, but the Electron app always seemed more full featured, and at least for me, I had lots of issues with bugginess and slowness in the web browser, even in Chrome. I'm not sure why it would be slower in Chrome than Electron. Neither are particularly lightweight. Maybe it's my fault somehow.
    • kroltan 4y ago
      With Electron you can depend directly on native libraries for handling audio and whatnot, but I don't think that explains the whole picture.
• pythux 4y ago
  One datapoint: I use Slack exclusively in the browser (both Firefox and Brave), and it works well. As far as I remember on Firefox there was some limitation on video calls but that was arbitrary (user-agent check or something like that).
  • happymellon 4y ago
    Yes, it is just video calls. I hadn't tried the user agent trick, I was just frustrated enough at being on my personal laptop and having to join a call then finding Slack was being terrible. And for no apparent good reason other than bad quality software. I only brought it up because it is high profile web application that has an arbitrary Firefox limitation, and as a Firefox user I will name and shame bad applications.