Nov 10 2019 08:40 AM - edited Nov 10 2019 08:42 AM
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 other type of apps as well?
Nov 10 2019 08:51 AM - edited Nov 10 2019 08:53 AM
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.
Nov 10 2019 08:54 AM
Nov 10 2019 08:59 AM - edited Nov 10 2019 09:06 AM
Yeah, well you could use resource monitor in Windows 10 or performance analyzer in Windows 10 ADK to measure them properly.
for example Spotify has a web player which you could add it as a PWA and it also has a PWA that is in Windows store.
the one in Edge insider obviously uses the Chromium engine but the one installed from the Windows store uses the EdgeHTML engine from Edge classic, since it is the official WebView system inside Windows 10 for now.
my guess is that the one using EdgeHTML engine will use less system resources :)