webview2 memory

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Discussions tagged with 'webview2 memory' focus on the high RAM consumption of applications built on Microsoft's WebView2 control, particularly after the 2025 WhatsApp for Windows update that replaced its native UWP client with a Chromium WebView2-based wrapper. Users report memory usage reaching 1.2GB after normal chat use on Windows 11, highlighting a broader concern about WebView2 apps behaving like heavy browser tabs. Related threads examine Microsoft Teams' separate child process for calls and the impact of AI demand on DDR5 pricing, but the core tag content centers on WebView2's memory footprint in desktop apps.

  1. WhatsApp for Windows WebView2 Wrapper Reportedly Eats 1.2GB RAM After Login

    WhatsApp for Windows is reportedly using hundreds of megabytes of memory before login and as much as roughly 1.2GB after normal chat use on Windows 11, after Meta replaced its native UWP client with a Chromium WebView2-based desktop wrapper in 2025. The numbers matter because this is not a...
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  2. Windows Widgets Through the Ages: Why Desktop Glanceables Keep Returning

    Microsoft’s habit of killing and resurrecting desktop widgets has become less a product-development story and more a case study in indecision: from Active Desktop through Vista/7 Gadgets to Windows 8’s Live Tiles and the modern Windows 11 Widgets board, the same idea — putting dynamic...
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  3. Memory Crunch 2025: AI Demand, DDR5, and the PC Market

    AI’s appetite for memory and storage has reshaped the PC market faster than many hobbyists expected, and the idea that this is a coordinated plot to “kill local PCs” is seductive—but misleading. What’s actually happening is a mix of market concentration, prioritization of higher‑margin AI...
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  4. Microsoft Teams Adds ms-teams_modulehost.exe to Speed Up Calls

    Microsoft has quietly confirmed a practical but partial fix for one of the most persistent complaints about its desktop collaboration app: Teams will soon run calling features in a separate child process — ms-teams_modulehost.exe — in an effort to reduce startup time and blunt the worst of the...
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