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To be fair steam has always been a wrapper around a browser for its store content etc. Maybe the outer chrome has been pulled into that though…


In early Steam days, the store and community pages where handled by using mshtml.dll, with most of that ported to Chromium when they launched Linux and Mac OS versions.

I'm pretty sure the "new" Steam UI (the current one) is fully ported to basically be like an Electron app (I don't think it's literally Electron, but same concept).


They use CEF(Chromium Embedded Framework)




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