Good to know, thanks for that.
What's the practical difference?
Re:The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge
by numbsafari on Saturday March 18, 2023 @08:27AM
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Having a web view loading garbage in the background consuming resources and probably leaking your data vs. …none of that?
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.
Re:The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge
by makeitdouble on Saturday March 18, 2023 @09:25AM
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You still get the widgets in some interactions (like left swipe from the edge of the screen). There must be a way somewhere to customize those as well, but getting rid of widgets altogether is a lot faster.
Re:The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge
by crimsontech on Saturday March 18, 2023 @08:43AM
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As a mac user it’s super frustrating because this is the shortcut to close a window so I see this widget flyout constantly.
I need to figure out a way to remap it but not having admin on my corporate machine I have little hope.
As another macOS user, it's absolutely insane how much worse Windows has been allowed to get over the years, and I sincerely wish that my mid-2015 MBP had never broken, because this is still absolutely awful even after almost 2 years of getting re-acquainted with an OS that I had already used for 7 years before my first Mac.
macOS was just too good.
(Edit 29 minutes after, because I can't seem to post anymore:)
It still runs its webview in the background and can be toggled with the keyboard shortcut, Win+W, even if the button is hidden.
In order to fully disable it you need a Group Policy or a registry hack.