XHxhelphin·Nov 7, 2025Submission
WebView2 content is unexpectedly rendered in dark mode when Windows in dark mode
3 points · Open discussionMicrosoftEdge
WebView2Feedback
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WebView2Feedback
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24 sourcesSo I spoke to one of the contributors of Tauri who got back to me with the following response:
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It's not a thing tauri controls and the telemetry settings are an operating system setting since you are running windows this kind of telemetry is not completely avoidable."
He also kindly pointed to this GH Issue which discusses your privacy concern:
https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/105...
This quote from the issue stood out in particular:
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WebView2 is considered a Windows component, and the data collection consent is governed by Windows Diagnostic setting on Windows 10 as a centralized switch.
End users are empowered to control the data collection of WebView2 and can do so via toggling the Windows Diagnostic setting on Windows 10. This is also what the Edge browser does. On Windows 7/8.1, because there is no Windows
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Diagnostic setting, we treat this as no consent for optional data. There is very limited required data that the OS always collects, unless you're on some specific SKUs. Developers are definitely welcomed to convey that to their end users and ask them to use the OS toggle.
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I've been meaning to move away from Tauri + WebView2, this might be the best call to make (not only for this reason of course)
Similarly to https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/131... , I'm actually a bit confused - Edge is supported on Macs and Linux, Teams is apparently using this internally, so they're just... not packaging the thing they already support for anyone else to use?
In WebView2 drops future Linux and Mac supportWebView2 drops future Linux and Mac support
13 points · Open discussionYou say that being web centric precludes usage on conventional gaming platforms. What about all the games that are PC only anyways? They could use Tauri or whatnot & have incredibly easy time porting to native.
Games such as Battlefield have already used web technology to power much of the game chrome. Taking this a step further doesn't seem like a real constraint. Microsoft themselves are working to extend fast performance webviews to Xbox uwp's. https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/215...
You're also not acknowledging the upside. Plenty of games would love to have an easy-to-make runs-anywhere multi-parryty game. Letting people log in from work or their phone could be a huge advantage to reaching markets. The market of people with access to web browsers is much bigger than the market of console owners!
You're also co
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nstraining your thinking to a narrow band in other ways, again ignoring plenty of great potential. Unreal has had huge success gaining entry into all kinds of unexpected spaces; cinema, architecture, events. Engines have a much wider market than just games, and having engines available on a much broader set of modalities than conventional game engines can unlock new use cases. No one's going to build a navigation tool requiring everyone to have a Steam Deck, but if all it takes is a phone then maybe that becomes interesting.
This also seems like an amazing starter kit for education and hobby coders. Wouldn't it be amazing to be able to be a year or two into learning development, and be able to create your own virtual world? That anyone can easily join & access from any device? That potential makes me thrilled.
Maybe this innovation isn't for you & you want to stick to conventional modalities. Fine, great! Don't use this. I for one see a lot of potential & reason for excitement. I think it has plenty of revenue potential, and vast amounts of cool potential.
Comment on the page point to a few GitHub issues for macOS and Linux support.
Linux: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645...
> Hey all - We don't currently have a timeline for when we would begin this work. Unfortunately it's very unlikely to be soon.
macOS: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/131...
> No updates since @ningccn's comment above. We are continuing to make progress on Mac and haven't begun Linux planning yet.
In Microsoft Teams is getting big performance improvements next month"Microsoft Teams is getting big performance improvements".... but only for Windows!
Maybe some day we can have WebView2 in Linux[1] and others.
[1] https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645
In Microsoft Teams is getting big performance improvements next monthI like the idea of WebView2, but it seems to be abandonware. They don't fix the most obvious bugs you run into immediately when trying it out. https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/229...
In Available Today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Project VolterraYep, and edge webview2 uses edge for the most part. Yet there's something specific to the edge webview2 runtime that makes it hard to port even if edge itself is already available on mac/linux. I think it's because it uses some windows specific APIs to expose functionalities that aren't available to regular webviews (maybe the optional process and runtime sharing?)
They were planning on maybe releasing the linux port around the end of 2021, as they were prioritizing the mac port first.
But I don’t think even the mac port has been released yet... So it kind of makes sense for the Teams team (ha!) to just not bother with a linux release if the runtime they are developing on isn't even on the release roadmap yet. Though I guess that makes the switch from electron even more confusing.
https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/
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The major issue is that there is no cross-platform webview currently.
The main candidate is the official webview shipped on windows, but it is currently lacking linux support
https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645...
Linux webviews like e.g. tauri are shit, they use webkit wich leads to platform specific bugs and limitations vs the tauri on windows and more importantly webkit is the new IE, it lacks so many features it's pathetic and has major performance issues, e.g. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WebKit-W...
Why can't linux distros get an official chromium webview is beyond me, and those are the same shills that continuously rant about Electron bloat..
In W3C Proposes the Creation of a WebView Community GroupIf it is cross-platform it doesn't seem to be very mature cross-platform: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645.
In .NET 6 Releasedearlier today I checked again the mac tracking issue: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/131... as I hope for improvements for the unacceptable Teams client, and there is a new comment mentioning Oct '22 for the mac version of webview2 meaning that the linux one will come later. Of course the validity of that comment is to be checked but if that is the case, then they are just moving really really slow
In Microsoft’s Edge browser is now available on LinuxI'm not particularly interested in a Microsoft-branded Chrome variant on Linux. But this is interesting as a stepping stone toward WebView2 on Linux, which will give Electron some serious competition: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645...
In Microsoft’s Edge browser is now available on LinuxAsk HN: What does the future hold for Electron?
Microsoft owns Github. Github maintains Electron. Microsoft are moving Teams to use WebView2, sharing a single Chromium instance for all apps, reducing memory usage, which is the most common complaint for Electron.
This architecture has been obvious to everyone for a long time. Every Electron app could essentially be a webpage but with enhanced native API access.
Electron's future seems bleak. ESM support hasn't materialized (https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/21457). WebView2 will not be available on macOS until late 2022 [it seems](https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645#issuecomment-921551618).
Seems we are in one of these awkward transition periods, where you are forced to start a project on technology that you know will be deprecated in the near future sigh.
Anyone have insight/predictions?
4 points · Open discussionWebView2 will be coming to macOS then Linux in the not-so-distant future: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645...
I'm not aware of any public plans to move VS Code to WebView2, but I would be surprised if it doesn't happen eventually.
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