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The Mullvad app is huge ~100MB which is odd for what it needs to do.
by CPAhem 4y ago
The Mullvad app is huge ~100MB which is odd for what it needs to do.
- throwanem 4y agoI believe it's Electron-based, which is another reason I've hesitated to try it out. I like Electron - from the developer's perspective, it's great! - but I do still try to avoid its resource impact until there's a compelling reason to take the hit.
- silizium 4y agoMy mullvad installation on Windows has 258MB but memory footprint is low. I find 5 entries in the task manager with a total of 14.6MB with active connection.
- throwanem 4y agoMaybe not Electron, then. Perhaps I'm confusing it with ExpressVPN's first-party app, which definitely was Electron when I tried them a few years back.
- Foxboron 4y agoIt does use electron. The source code is available on github. https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app
- twojacobtwo 4y agoThat is one of the nitpicks that I missed, along with their downloads being excruciatingly slow when already connected to the service, for whatever reason (I may just be doing something wrong).
- maxwelldone 4y agoI've noticed that as well. The trick as I found (and even recommended by their support) is to download from their GitHub repo.