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by numbsafari 1188 days ago
Having a web view loading garbage in the background consuming resources and probably leaking your data vs. …none of that?
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It consumes a fair amount of resources just idling.

I'm currently using a laptop that was mid-to-low spec when I got it a couple years ago. It was chugging, especially during video calls. Uninstalling the Widgets feature was enough to make it useable again.