sidneys/pb-for-desktop v8.9.5

PB for Desktop v8.9.5

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8.9.5

🍾 Features

• implements Web Audio-based audio pipeline, superseding usages of AudioElement, fixing delayed/skipped notification sounds when running in the background
• adds PB for Desktop Preview app build, allowing for installation of prerelease builds side-by-side with the regular app
• optimizes rendering / backgrounding strategy for continuous background usage

🚨 Fixes

• adds fix for electron/electron upstream issue: BrowserWindow.getAllWindows doesn't return windows that inherit BrowserWindow
• adds fix for goldfire/howler.js upstream issue: Chrome 52 audio can't be heard after _autoResume

💎 Improvements

• upgrades Favicon Finder backend to latest upstream revision: https://pb-for-desktop-besticon.herokuapp.com
• consolidated format of all enclosed audio assets (44.1 kHz, Wave/PCM, 16 bit, 2 channels)

📒 Documentation

• updates README
• extends Pushbullet TypeScript declaration file

👷 Internals

• extends development & deployment toolchain
• upgrades internal modules
• upgrades external node_modules