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Install A Website As App
Are PWA's or websites that are turned into apps on new Edge suspended in background like UWP apps are? Are they draining your system more or less so than UWP apps? And are they sand-boxed like the o...
Hi darren79
the new Edge insider (and its PWAs) are completely separate from Universal Windows Platform (UWP).
so any similarity between them need to be manually benchmarked by users. (i.e system resource usage etc)
if you add a site as an app (or progressive web app), it will be the same as the normal browser tabs.
(not 100% sure about this due to lack of official documentations) but from what I've experienced, it's like that.
now there is a flag called "tab freeze"
I assume it has effects on the PWAs too as well as the normal tabs, but again not sure.