Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Ahoy Pie R8s! New Win11 Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:14:47 -0700 Organization: A place where nothing fits quite right Lines: 28 Message-ID: <20260817121447.00005c4f@gmail.com> References: <18cc1576469d353e$143557$916528$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <115rn8m$110$1@dont-email.me> <20260817094857.00002856@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:14:51 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="1291430"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/2QHXq0R12p85nuLQFOZi6P4YkIq49scI="; posting-host="b1b096096ae07f3aa9f3ad879d037ad3" Cancel-Lock: sha1:QeL+ZWspFAllrMVOFka6sPNDZlI= sha256:4g7teLfxSzEcEJKHi7R4duiYF4sefH8yPVvnTry9PgY= sha1:6SrORaZxSSCy1JIuKnak6k35sQc= sha256:Pbum+AUNzDsMxQRyfSqCXk+BSuNUw1B/H62blGcg3ns= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:89982 On 17 Aug 2026 17:49:24 GMT rbowman 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.)