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points by CodesInChaos 6 hours ago | 0 comments

What I don't get is why most background electron/CEF applications don't unload the web engine when it's minimized to tray for some time. Chrome starts in about a second, the the webview shouldn't take more than that to re-initialize.

[–] NetMageSCW 6 hours ago

Probably because they have stuff to do in the background and so have to keep the javascript running.

[–] kaelwd 4 hours ago

You don't need the whole browser frontend for that though, Electron also includes Node.js which is much less memory hungry.

[–] jcelerier 5 hours ago

> Chrome starts in about a second,

on which machine ? go check the first three PCs here: https://www.amazon.ca/Best-Sellers-Laptop-Computers/zgbs/ele... ; do you think they open chrome in a second ?