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It must be because of the auto-update checker. It's a useful feature that lets us notify users about new versions and also let them download and install without opening the Github repository.

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But you check for updates every 45 seconds? Why?

It's the electron-builder that's doing it, must be its default configuration. I'll see if I can fix the continuous checks and limit it to only at launch.

Thanks for taking a look at this!

Maybe the update check is not completing in time and hitting a 45 second timeout similar to [1]?

[1]: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues...

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