Summary
- Windows 11 Weather app hogs about 1.2GB RAM and spawns multiple Chromium processes.
- App displays ads because it wraps MSN weather in a WebView2/browser shell.
- Native macOS Weather uses ~247MB with no ads; Microsoft should port to WinUI 3.
Summary
- Windows 11 Weather app hogs about 1.2GB RAM and spawns multiple Chromium processes.
- App displays ads because it wraps MSN weather in a WebView2/browser shell.
- Native macOS Weather uses ~247MB with no ads; Microsoft should port to WinUI 3.
On Mac there’s a tonne of animations for the various stages of the day and various types of weather. Even for phases of the moon, and wind map with indication of wind velocity. Took a screenshot for a bit of context:
Interestingly it takes up 400 mb ram whereas messages takes up 610, which I find confusing