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This new Copilot is an interesting app, and that might also explain why it feels faster than typical web apps or PWAs. It’s because Microsoft ships a private copy of Edge inside the Copilot app, includes a custom launcher (mscopilot.exe), and the Copilot UI itself is a web app rendered via WebView2.

I’m having trouble understanding the causality here. Why does shipping an entire version of Edge improve speed?

edge is based on chromium, so is electron....

And so is the Webview2 built into Windows

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