A lot of people have given negative feedback(because of electron?). I for one, a... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		asdojasdosadsa on Nov 1, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Standalone Signal Desktop A lot of people have given negative feedback(because of electron?). I for one, am happy for this. I am in the middle of migrating slowly to Mozilla Firefox from Google Chrome, and one of the hardest things, is to have some of the apps as standalone. I couldn't use my MacBook for anything else if I wanted to chat using signal (..and have chrome running in the background). Maybe that's just me, but it's good news!

JshWright on Nov 1, 2017 [–]

It's not "standalone" though... It's moving from being a Chrome extension to simply bundling an entire instance of Chromium that only it gets to use.

So, you're migrating from Firefox to multiple instances of Chrome...

stavros on Nov 1, 2017 | [–]

I don't understand why it can't be served as a web app, like WhatsApp Web is :(

Consider applying for YC's Winter 2026 batch! Applications are open till Nov 10
Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact