diff --git a/src/services/desktop-api.ts b/src/services/desktop-api.ts
index 708b992b..66ddeed4 100644
--- a/src/services/desktop-api.ts
+++ b/src/services/desktop-api.ts
@@ -56,4 +56,12 @@ interface NativeContextMenuSubmenu {
     items: readonly NativeContextMenuItem[];
 }
 
-export const DesktopApi: DesktopApi = window.desktopApi ?? {};
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+// Quick fix to avoid this file crashing the update SW which doesn't have 'window' available, without
+// also breaking old Electron that doesn't have globalThis:
+const global = typeof globalThis !== 'undefined'
+        ? globalThis
+    : typeof window !== 'undefined'
+        ? window
+    : {};
+
+export const DesktopApi: DesktopApi = global.desktopApi ?? {};
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