The popular encrypted email client is going mainstream.

Same thing happens to me if I were to open each of those apps as chrome tabs.

The apps you listed provide a web version also. Adding choice to the customer experience is a good thing!

Adding choice to the customer

“you can have your memory eaten by our website in your browser, or by our website in a separate browser window wearing fake moustache and glasses” doesn’t seem to be much of a choice.

meanwhile if you launch their services using something other than a glorified Chrome tab, like spotify-qt or ripcord, they both end up consuming like one tenth of the resources the official clients do.

Why do you think everyone cares to optimize every single ounce of their ram memory. There is a lot more to UX than that.

I would rather an imperfect choice than none at all

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That’s a bad analogy. A browser with 5 tabs is not like having 5 different browsers open.

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User experience is not just about optimizing every little bit of your RAM consumption. They’re are plenty of other factors as well

Yes, and UX is bad in web applications. I‘m saying that as a web application developer.

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