India, July 8 -- For years, the browser was treated like background furniture on a gaming PC. It sat there with a guide, a Discord tab, a store page, a YouTube video, or a cloud gaming session while the game took all the attention. That old view does not fit modern Windows gaming hardware anymore. Gaming laptops now juggle high-refresh displays, powerful processors, discrete graphics, background launchers, overlays, and battery-saving modes at the same time.

Windows handheld PCs make the issue even sharper because they squeeze a full PC gaming stack into a compact body with shared memory, smaller batteries, and strict power profiles. In that setup, a browser is not harmless just because it is minimized. It can still hold memory, wake the...