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> Is there any reason to use the non browser version?

Making it completely disappear to a tray icon.

> 1 less v8 instance running

I doubt. With process isolation, I guess every tab runs its on V8. Otherwise, oh boy.

Tabs are sharing the code though, because it comes from the same binary. Every electron app instead has its V8 and Blink in a separate binary that has to be loaded into its own RAM.

I suggest you open your systems version of task manager. All those chrome processes are loaded in their own ram.

That’s just sandboxing. They still share a significant amount of resources.

Sharing of read-only pages from the executable is done at the kernel (page cache) level. I agree that for example JIT compiled code is not shared.

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