The Steam Web Helper is great for those who enjoy the many social aspects of Steam as a platform, but for those just looking to open up Steam and launch Counter Strike so that they can lose yet another 1v1 Arena online, the Steam web helper is of little use. For these kinds of people, the web helper consumes a large amount of memory running a Chrome process, and can occasionally lead to crashes on platforms like obscure Linuxes.
By launching steam with:
steam -no-browser
The embedded web browser process is not started. This saves on some nice system resources, but unfortunately also prevents you from opening the Steam Store, Community, or Profile/Inventory in the client. For those with lower resource machines, or those who simply don't care about those Steam features, it can be a nice help.
Note that Steam does not officially support configurations running without the browser instance. I also assume no responsibility for anything you may mess up. I also cannot guarantee that the performance you may see improving is not entirely just placebo.
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