Updated, related discussion in MicrosoftEdge Feedback repo. The source code repo with examples of each WebView-based app mentioned here is now available, too.
Let's compare the working sets of various WebView-based Windows Desktop apps. Each application simply loads the Bing homepage.
| App | Working set size |
|---|---|
| Legacy IE11 WebBrowser WPF | 164 MB |
| MSEdge WebView2 WPF | 582 MB |
| Chromely/CefSharp | 516 MB |
| Electron v10 | 570 MB |
A screenshot of Process Explorer:
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