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by solarkraft 67 days ago
> This new Copilot is an interesting app, and that might also explain why it feels faster than typical web apps or PWAs. It’s because Microsoft ships a private copy of Edge inside the Copilot app, includes a custom launcher (mscopilot.exe), and the Copilot UI itself is a web app rendered via WebView2.

I’m having trouble understanding the causality here. Why does shipping an entire version of Edge improve speed?

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edge is based on chromium, so is electron....
And so is the Webview2 built into Windows