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."
Eh memory usage is a complicated thing to measure. You can map hundreds of MBs of files, and not use any of them, without any performance impact. This is actually a good thing because using virtual memory this way is efficient versus reading everything in from the disk at the beginning in a way that the OS can't lazily load. The real question is whether it's actually accessing this memory and thus incurring page fills.