Electron on Linux hangs when making two successive async calls over the network

Without this calls to /channels/list would break after the first API hit

freechat-client/preload.js

@@ -13,3 +13,7 @@ window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
 		replaceText(`${type}`, process.versions[type]);
 	}
 });
+
+setInterval(() => {
+	window.setImmediate(() => {})
+}, 1000)