[ntrepid8]

I wonder if there is any possibility of using a newer iteration of Firefox with a configurable number of threads rather than Chrome as the engine for Electron (or something like it). In the browser at least this helps a lot to bring down memory consumption.

Electron does more than just about any other tool to enable building high quality cross platform apps. As someone who runs Linux on the desktop it's quite nice to be able to use the same apps as folks running Mac/Win. I just don't have any computers with less than 16 GB of memory :)