Steam Client Webhelper.

[Artrysa]

So this little program right here takes up 20-30% of my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cpu. I don't have a lot to spare as it is. Anyone knows a fix for this?

[The [SVK]]

I seem to have a very similar problem. Steam Client WebHelper eats ~15% CPU and ~60% GPU for no good reason.

I tried to find the cause of this and so far I've found that it starts when you open a game page in the new library and stops when you return to the "home" page of the new library. Closing the window or selecting other "tab" in the client (store, community...) won't stop it, as if the game page was still opened (loaded in the memory but not displayed) and Steam was still working on it.

[Artrysa]

So does it fix it if you tab out, return to the home page and then pull the game back up again? Or does it keep going at that point?

[Greywolf]

Yes, it is their new "modern" look... but with a primitive layout, cumbersome browsing and amateurish functionnability. They sacrificed usefulness and functionability for superficial looks.

They sacrificed a winning recipe for this noob design. Probably a pencil pusher that never played a video game in his life even less used Steam and told the guys responsible for programming this junk to make such a poor interface.

[MrPeters]

You can kill the webhelper processes which might, albeit temporarily, fix it, it will restart shortly after. Only thing this might cause issues for is if you're actively chatting in Steam friends or doing something in Steam overlay.
The webhelper processes initially took care of only Steam friends and the overlay but with the new library they expanded the amount of things it handles.

[Artrysa]

This blows. Why do they need to keep updating things that don't need updates? The old friend list was fine too, but they just had to mess with it. Hopefully they give us the option to revert back this time.

[Satoru]

You can try enabling/disabling GPU acceleration for the in game browser

Also the new steam client beta has introduced some performance improvements

[Artrysa]

Wait! So the beta has gotten performance improvements, but the actual client still has issues?

[The [SVK]]

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So does it fix it if you tab out, return to the home page and then pull the game back up again? Or does it keep going at that point?

Returning to home page seems to fix it for me (when talking about the excessive CPU/GPU usage). Changing tabs or closing the window doesn't seem to have any effect.