Must be one of the biggest museums ever. :)
They should’ve used their own codebase, not Chromium or Electron. But here we are.
I feel like it’s more buggy on Linux right now. When I switch workspaces the whole Steam window goes dark unless it’s on library, so I started to do almost everything on the browser. Also, HW acceleration has a memory leak for me, it’s starting to use my all GPU memory after some time and the fix for that is restarting Steam. Could be Nvidia’s fault but still.
Make yourself offline and close the chat window. From settings, disable Sign in to friends when Steam Client starts. "You should be offline next time. Though the chat window will still appear even if you’re offline, it’s like that since the last update.
Could it be because it’s not https? Anyway, I made a pastebin for you: https://pastes.io/xkcqewjdnk