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The other thing I find ionic about this whole article is that it's perfectly easy to only use Slack within Chrome as a normal web app. And the UI is almost exactly the same because it's nearly all the same code.

So if the Electron bloat is such as issue for you, just hit Slack in the web directly.

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>So if the Electron bloat is such as issue for you, just hit Slack in the web directly.

That's even more horrible, i've tried it. Chrome uses his own notifications on macOS instead of integrating with systems notification manager and always when one of these ugly, poor animated guys pops up, i can search through my 100 open browser tabs to find the damn chat. Millions of flamewars were fought about what's the best window manager and we are ending up with a single window with a tabbar? Are you kids serious?

So just run it in a dedicated chrome window so you can alt+tab to it directly?

This was the main reason I used the electron version of slack and tbh it makes little difference if I run a dedicated Firefox window or the app since my laptop is less than a year old and could run a few hundred instances of either without sweating..

I have Canary installed for this very reason. My mail app, Slack, Jira and any 'productivity' sites live on that, whilst everything else stays on good old Chrome. Switching from one context to another then becomes very straightforward.

Use Safari then.

Safari just doesn't work for me. It's my favorite browser ui wise, every time i'm getting a new machine i first stick with safari, but after a while under heavy use i notice all the problems with Safari getting slow, doing weird things, etc and i find myself on the Chrome download page again :(

While I was on mac i got an extra few hours of battery life from using safari.

I'm on Firefox these days; with noscript (once you go through the initial few days of pain whitelisting things) it works brilliantly; I would suggest you give it another chance..

Unless you try to book flights from britishairways though.

s/ionic/ironic

But I find it to be a humorous typo given the topic of this discussion as ionic is a browser-based cross-platform mobile framework.

Indeed, we should start calling electron-less applications ionic.

I do this. Go to Slack and click 'add to desktop' and Open as Window and you're good to go. Same for Whatsapp Web etc...

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