How do i disable/turn off Steam Client WebHelper?

[Wavie]

So i'm just trying to turn it off, every time i "end task" in my task manager it just pops back up. I know Steam uses it for a lot of things but it is seemingly bogging down my PC when steam is NOT OPEN. Steam should have nothing open when it is not open. How do i remove it or disable it or whatever. Any help would be appreciated.

[Snapjak]

You don't unless you want Steam to stop functioning properly.

Most of Steam is rendering web pages. The webhelper is Steam's browser.

[NeutraL]

You can with a command.

[Sacred Herb]

Nguyên văn bởi Snapjak:

You don't unless you want Steam to stop functioning properly.

Most of Steam is rendering web pages. The webhelper is Steam's browser.

Congrats. You win the award for answering a question without even reading it.

In big capital letters the OP said "... when Steam is NOT OPEN", and yet your answer is to tell him Steam won't function properly if he disables this webhelper garbage.

I'm pretty sure Steam doesn't function properly anyway when it's NOT OPEN.

[Zekiran]

Nguyên văn bởi Sacred Herb:

Nguyên văn bởi Snapjak:

You don't unless you want Steam to stop functioning properly.

Most of Steam is rendering web pages. The webhelper is Steam's browser.

Congrats. You win the award for answering a question without even reading it.

In big capital letters the OP said "... when Steam is NOT OPEN", and yet your answer is to tell him Steam won't function properly if he disables this webhelper garbage.

I'm pretty sure Steam doesn't function properly anyway when it's NOT OPEN.

Steam being exited out of and not running =/= 'not visible on the screen'.

Why did you bump a 6 month old thread with nonsense that you clearly didn't understand either?

Steamwebhelper runs when steam is turned on. That's the only time it runs. It does not run when Steam has been properly exited.

[Faestre]

Bumped again because Steam does appear to have an intermittent problem with webhelper hanging and being unresponsive to task manager, and when it gets like that it often exacerbates problems that could otherwise be solved by shutting down and restarting Steam.

Question remains unresolved.

[Fishie]

Nguyên văn bởi Faestre:

Bumped again because Steam does appear to have an intermittent problem with webhelper hanging and being unresponsive to task manager, and when it gets like that it often exacerbates problems that could otherwise be solved by shutting down and restarting Steam.

Question remains unresolved.

I just use task manager and close it. It only pops up again when you launch Steam and when you close Steam you will still see it running but I just use task manager and close it. I don't think there is a way to stop it.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Nguyên văn bởi Wavie:

So i'm just trying to turn it off, every time i "end task" in my task manager it just pops back up. I know Steam uses it for a lot of things but it is seemingly bogging down my PC when steam is NOT OPEN. Steam should have nothing open when it is not open. How do i remove it or disable it or whatever. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer:

-no-browser

Use this as a launch parameter.

Notes:
* When doing this, Steam will launch more quickly and useless less system resources.
* This will remove the main Steam Library (because for whatever stupid reason it now uses Chromium Embedded Framework) including the downloads page and the game options page (because for whatever stupid reason they do too).
* You can still access your library through Small Mode and Big Picture Mode.
* You can only uninstall games through Big Picture Mode. (If you try to uninstall games any other way, including through Windows's own Programs list, it'll cause the uninstall to hang, because for whatever stupid reason the uninstall confirmation prompt also now uses CEF.)
* Friends/Chat will be reverted to the old UI.

I regularly use -no-browser, so feel free to ask me questions.

[PotionShop]

This made my game run smoother, big thank you.


For those who have never used a parameter before:

• Right click Steam desktop icon -> Select Properties
  
• Go to the tab "Shortcut" -> Find the box beside "Target:"
  
• After ...Steam.exe" enter " -no-browser"
  
• Click "OK" to save the changes
  
• Must restart Steam for changes to apply. (including tray icon)

Notes:
- there needs to be a space before "-no-browser"
- optional: make a second shortcut with no parameter (just saves time)

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Nguyên văn bởi PotionShop:

- optional: make a second shortcut with no parameter (just saves time)

I actually made a third shortcut as well, with a ton more parameters.

By the way, folks, you can apply these to the start menu entries as well. That's how I've set up mine, since I prefer to keep Steam off the desktop. The exact procedure differs depending on your operating system, but in Windows 10, you can right-click start menu entries (either from the all apps list or from a text search for applications, and you can select More -> Open File Location. That brings up a folder containing the shortcut, which you can then right-click and click Properties, in order to edit its parameters.

[Elucidator]

webhelpers are just chromium browser pages loaded in (on top of) windows. Every browser page has a bit of updating going on on the background, so despite it generally doing nothing, for example google tracking is still going on.

You need ungoogled chromium if you want to go without that, but Steam uses CEF which uses the official builds, so some stuff is outside of their control (unless they change the source every time they update)

read more about it here:
https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
https://github.com/chromiumembedded/cef

[m3roadworx]

Nguyên văn bởi Zekiran:

Nguyên văn bởi Sacred Herb:

Steamwebhelper runs when steam is turned on. That's the only time it runs. It does not run when Steam has been properly exited.

Yes it does. I close Steam and there are four threads named 'Steam Client Webhelper'. If I close one, it starts up again immediately. Very annoying.

[GOLDEN-]

Nguyên văn bởi PotionShop:

This made my game run smoother, big thank you.


For those who have never used a parameter before:

• Right click Steam desktop icon -> Select Properties
  
• Go to the tab "Shortcut" -> Find the box beside "Target:"
  
• After ...Steam.exe" enter " -no-browser"
  
• Click "OK" to save the changes
  
• Must restart Steam for changes to apply. (including tray icon)

Notes:
- there needs to be a space before "-no-browser"
- optional: make a second shortcut with no parameter (just saves time)

nope Doesnt Work this way dude

[76561198123537458]

Nguyên văn bởi WeeDStaR-:

Nguyên văn bởi PotionShop:

This made my game run smoother, big thank you.


For those who have never used a parameter before:

• Right click Steam desktop icon -> Select Properties
  
• Go to the tab "Shortcut" -> Find the box beside "Target:"
  
• After ...Steam.exe" enter " -no-browser"
  
• Click "OK" to save the changes
  
• Must restart Steam for changes to apply. (including tray icon)

Notes:
- there needs to be a space before "-no-browser"
- optional: make a second shortcut with no parameter (just saves time)

nope Doesnt Work this way dude

This method was working, but recently, somewhere in the past 2 weeks, it started making problems again.

[wuddih]

Nguyên văn bởi mizu:

Nguyên văn bởi WeeDStaR-:

nope Doesnt Work this way dude

This method was working, but recently, somewhere in the past 2 weeks, it started making problems again.

-no-browser is removed, no longer supported.

[GOLDEN-]

Nguyên văn bởi wuddih:

Nguyên văn bởi mizu:

This method was working, but recently, somewhere in the past 2 weeks, it started making problems again.

-no-browser is removed, no longer supported.

Yes