Fix Electron 9 crash on Windows 10 (#986)

Co-authored-by: Amine Mouafik <amine@mouafik.fr>
Co-authored-by: vantezzen <hello@vantezzen.io>
Co-authored-by: Sampath Kumar Krishnan <sampathBlam@users.noreply.github.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index e39434a3b..66ae3ad00 100644
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -53,6 +53,13 @@ import userAgent from './helpers/userAgent-helpers';
 
 const debug = require('debug')('Ferdi:App');
 
+// From Electron 9 onwards, app.allowRendererProcessReuse = true by default. This causes the app to crash on Windows due to the 
+// Electron Windows Notification API crashing. Setting this to false fixes the issue until the electron team fixes the notification bug
+// More Info - https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/18397
+if (isWindows) {
+  app.allowRendererProcessReuse = false;
+}
+
 // Globally set useragent to fix user agent override in service workers
 debug('Set userAgent to ', userAgent());
 app.userAgentFallback = userAgent();
@@ -326,7 +333,7 @@ const createWindow = () => {
 
   app.mainWindow = mainWindow;
   app.isMaximized = mainWindow.isMaximized();
-
+  
   mainWindow.webContents.on('new-window', (e, url) => {
     debug('Open url', url);
     e.preventDefault();