Windows 11 default desktop Chat/Teams widgets are Edge web views that eat up hundreds of MB of memory: https://archive.is/pyvEO
Edge also preloads in the background even if it's not the default browser: https://archive.md/AAjz4
Both links also detail how to disable these "features."
Edge has a tiny market share now, thanks to every retard using Goolag Chrome because Google is the homepage.
New edge is google chrome. Microsoftized
I prefer MS having my data vs Google.