Electron 28-based Testing Release - report of compatibility

[ask2018]

Hello,
thank you very much for first testing release. I'm opening this issue to report here what is working fine and what not.
I've tested 2 electron based applications on Windows 7 x64 SP1 with all updates ESU included

1. ElectronMail https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail/ - tested version 5.2.0
   This seems to be working fine. Or at least I didn't find issues yet.

2. Tutanota Desktop https://github.com/tutao/tutanota - tested version 3.118.8
   Application just opens and exits with no error or warning.

[win32ss]

Tutanota is launching for me on Vista, 7 and 10 1809. Did you make sure that the resources folder was cleaned out before copying in Tutanota's files?

Or you can keep only default_app.asar (it's needed to direct Electron to other paths for finding applications) in resources and launch Tutanota from elsewhere by the command line (type electron X:\resources\app.asar where resources is Tutanota's resources folder).

In fact, I will make an Electron app manager to prevent these conflicts and allow a user to launch multiple applications easily.

[win32ss]

I will also report that GitHub Desktop works:

However, Supermium Electron on Vista only launches from the command line or it loops. This issue does not affect 7 and above so I decided to release it.

[ask2018]

Yes I've cleaned that folder. But I have found already what is causing that crash for Tutanota for me.
I cleaned my C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\tutanota-desktop folder and tried to run it again.
Now there was no crash. I've tried to login to my account and that is working as well.
But If I try to tick "save my login details" and try to login it crashes. Same if the login details are already saved from previous version. Crash must be related somehow to this and you need tutanota account for testing it.

[win32ss]

The crash is in the better-sqlite3 node module. It happens regardless of OS, so presumably it is related to something missing from Supermium Electron. I also tried Tutanota with VS Code 1.83 Insider's Electron executable and the same thing happens.

[ask2018]

I've tried older versions of Tutanota and last version without this crash seems to be 3.114.1 (but I'm getting there some errors on start and close).
With 3.115.2 I have already the same crash as with 3.118.8.

[MVoloshin]

ArmCord 3.2.4 (latest version of Discord fork). Didn't notice any glitches yet

[ask2018]

I'm facing similar crash issue as with Tutanota with Session. It is also using better-sqlite3 node module, so it might be the same reason of the crash. I can run it, but right after I input my password, it crashes.
https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop
Tested version 1.11.3

[win32ss]

I tried using the version of better-sqlite3 that is in Tutanota 3.114.1 with 3.118.8 and there was no change. I will build better-sqlite3 from source to get debugging symbols and try to get a clearer idea of what is happening.

[MiraakThuri]

Windows 7 X64 SP1
Not working on Discord official client (last version):

Also tried to use OpenAsar (https://github.com/GooseMod/OpenAsar) (superlight opensource replacement for Discord app.asar)
but i will get this error:

I know other clients like ArmCord exists but since they are based on the Web version they lacks alot of the features im using such as custom keybinds and exclusive fullscreen game screensharing

PS: Make no difference if i start discord using the commandline to start the App.asar from the source folder

[sergeevabc]

Anyone care to provide pre-built .zip to download and replace incompatible Electron-based app files? I'd like to test it with Obsidian (another popular Electron-based app).

[ask2018]

@sergeevabc for now you can grab precompiled testing build here: https://github.com/win32ss/supermium-electron/releases/tag/v28-testing and I guess @win32ss will provide stable build when it will be ready for more testing.

[sergeevabc]

@ask2018, alright, reporting back.
Tested x64 with Obsidian, does not work, dark empty screen.

[KandiPanda]

Tested the precompile build with https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube, and 64-bit Supermium-Electron does work with nightly build freetube-0.19.1-nightly-3736 onwards (at least as of current latest build as of this writing).

Edit: Current release (Release v0.20.0 Beta) works in 64-bit Supermium-Electron, have not tested in 32-bit but would guess that it should work there as well.

Edit: Tested the current latest build (freetube-0.20.0-nightly-4263) in both 64-bit and 32-bit Supermium-Electron, seems to work fine in either.

Edit: freetube-0.21.3-nightly-4681 is still working in 64-bit Supermium-Electron, haven't checked with 32-bit in a while but would think that it would work there also.

[malisipi]

NewFlow is currently working fine in Windows 7 with Supermium Electron.

[Jevil7452]

Beeper (http://beeper.com/) works fine