#deltachat Desktop can now run on #Firefox and Safari, entirely avoiding #Electron and Chromium! It's an intended side-effect of the "porting Desktop to #Tauri" effort led by @treefit which aims to provide a non-Electron packaged version of the Desktop. Here is a video and deep dive into what's working on regular browsers now, and what's missing for a full Web version: delta.chat/en/2025-05-22-brows…
Delta Chat: Delta Chat Desktop, but running inside of Firefox 🦊
As part of the project to port Delta Chat Desktop from Electron to Tauri1, we’ll showcase a setup where our Desktop app runs in Firefox and does not depend on Electron or Chromium anymore. This vid...delta.chat
![A screenshot of deltachat tauri.
Shows Chatlist and a chat with the following conversation (interface is set to German, so I translate it here):
[Info message: Today]
[Info message: From this point onwards messages are guaranteed to be E2E encrypted, tab here to learn more]
B: Hello 👋 [hearth emoji reaction]
A: Hello my friend, writing here from Delta Chat Tauri [rocket emoji reaction]
B:🤩
B: Image with deltachat and tauri logo connected by a line from which an arrow extends to the delta tauri project logo (which is the deltachat logo with the white border replaced by a gradient that was based on the tauri logo color)](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/613515 "A screenshot of deltachat tauri.
Shows Chatlist and a chat with the following conversation (interface is set to German, so I translate it here):
[Info message: Today]
[Info message: From this point onwards messages are guaranteed to be E2E encrypted, tab here to learn more]
B: Hello 👋 [hearth emoji reaction]
A: Hello my friend, writing here from Delta Chat Tauri [rocket emoji reaction]
B:🤩
B: Image with deltachat and tauri logo connected by a line from which an arrow extends to the delta tauri project logo (which is the deltachat logo with the white border replaced by a gradient that was based on the tauri logo color)")
