I have installed the App Store version in /Applications and the Homebrew installed version in ~/Applications and for some reason they are very different.
App Store: v2.53, 345.9MB
Homebrew: v2.34, 1.1GB
How does that work?
They’re different builds.
The App Store version is trimmed down due to Apple’s sandboxing rules. It doesn’t use the Qt WebEngine, so features like media preview are missing. That makes the bundle smaller but also limits functionality.
The Homebrew version has all features enabled.
They also use different data containers, so accounts and settings aren’t shared between them.
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Thank you. Would it be possible to harmonise version numbers, so that by version 2.6 or version 3 the numbers align, but there’s a letter added or something of the sort to indicate the difference?