Comment by Insanity
4 days ago
Interesting, I didn't know they moved to a Chromium based desktop application. But honestly, I don't feel like there's any performance issues with the steam desktop client (I'm running it on Fedora, but I'm assuming performance is relatively similar on different platforms).
The switch from IE/Trident to Chromium happened in 2010 alongside launching support for Macs.
That’s unrelated. I assume they only switched the webstore part at that time.
The actual move to CEF started in 2018 with the Steam Friends rework.