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by ripley12 1987 days ago
It's unlikely that they'll be bundling Chromium with the individual apps, at least on Windows:

"In the future, the Evergreen WebView2 Runtime plans to ship with future releases of Windows." https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/

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This is literally the second sentence in the link you cite:

> The WebView2 control uses Microsoft Edge (Chromium) as the rendering engine to display the web content in native applications.

Yes, I know. My point was that it’s not like Electron where they ship Chromium with every app, it’s more like a browser tab in terms of resource consumption.