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But it's chromium serving local content. That is somewhat of a difference.

I run Slack only in Safari. It works significantly better than the desktop app.

I don't think serving local content would explain why the desktop app insists on munching through all the available RAM (on a single team, no less!), something else must be going on. But that's actually a pretty good suggestion - I'll try the web version, thanks.

Used to be some time ago when downloads were ~5-7mb. Nowadays it uses Electron:

/Applications/Slack.app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Versions/A/Electron Framework

Yup. A glorified webkit wrapper.

CTRL R works in the "native" app.