Re: Ahoy Pie R8s! New Win11

On 17 Aug 2026 17:49:24 GMT
rbowman <[email protected]> wrote:

> > but on top of that you're perpetually stuck with a dozen Edge
> > processes running in the background to serve up the New New Flavor
> > of GUI,  
> 
> I think that's a chromium 'feature'.  I use Brave, which is also
> chromium based, and it launches a lot of processes. 'killall' comes
> in handy if you want to shut it down without closing all the tabs.

The process-per-tab thing is a Chrome legacy, yes, and there's reasons
for it (as Paul explains elsethread.) The beef with Edge specifically,
here, is twofold: that *A.* even with the browser closed, Edge leaves
processes hanging around in memory like a couch-surfing relative, and
*B.* the Win11 New New Flavor GUI specifically has some dependency* on
the Edge WebView2 framework, so even if you kill the browser manually
and never invoke it, there are at all times a dozen or more processes
of *that* hanging around in memory, just to serve up the same broader
functionality Windows has been providing since Win95 with the latest
layer of frosting on it.

* (Some people will argue that the whole framework is built on top of
  Edge, and therefore this extra bloat is Actually Necessary. This
  would be morally indefensible in any case, but as far as I can tell
  it's not even true; Server 2025 uses the same gussied-up interface
  without the pile of msedgewebview2.exe's hanging around in RAM.)