Avoid running Renderer when WebUI is not shown #1893
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exp/intermediate
Prior experience is likely helpful
help wanted
Seeking public contribution on this issue
kind/maintenance
Work required to avoid breaking changes or harm to project's status quo
need/analysis
Needs further analysis before proceeding
P2
Medium: Good to have, but can wait until someone steps up
topic/perf
Performance
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Using electron takes up a lot of memory compared to other native programs.
Describe the solution you'd like
Write a native app that is only the menubar (e.g. Status, Files, and Peers would open your web browser).
Describe alternatives you've considered
Don't start IPFS Desktop Helper (Renderer) if
openWebUIAtLaunch
is set tofalse
, rewrite the whole app to be native (Maybe use the bundled WKWebView?)The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: