/NoSteamWebHelper

A program that disables Steam's CEF/Chromium Embedded Framework.

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NoSteamWebHelper

A program that disables Steam's CEF/Chromium Embedded Framework.

Aim

This program was created with the intent of replacing of Steam's command-line parameter -no-browser which was removed.

How does NoSteamWebHelper kill or disable the CEF/Chromium Embedded Framework?

  • The executable does the following:
    • Launches Steam with the following arguments -cef-single-process -cef-disable-breakpad -cef-disable-gpu-compositing and appends any user provided ones, this restricts the CEF to a single process.
    • Injects the dynamic link library.

The dynamic link library toggles the CEF depending if an is app running or not.

  • If an app is running then the CEF is disabled.
  • If an app is not running then the CEF is enabled.

Note

You may also manually toggle the CEF via a tray icon provided by NoSteamWebHelper.

This way, the Steam UI is still accessible to use.

Usage

  1. Download the latest release from GitHub Releases.

  2. Unzip NoSteamWebHelper.zip, place NoSteamWebHelper.exe & NoSteamWebHelper.dll in your Steam installation directory where steam.exe is located.

  3. Make sure Steam is fully closed and run NoSteamWebHelper.exe to launch Steam.

  4. Start up an app and the CEF will be toggled accordingly.

Build

  1. Install MSYS2 & UPX for optional compression.

  2. Update the MSYS2 Environment until there are no pending updates using:

    pacman -Syu --noconfirm

  3. Install GCC i686 using:

    pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-gcc

  4. Make sure <MSYS2 Installation Directory>\mingw32\bin is added to the Windows PATH environment variable.

  5. Run Build.cmd.