[Feature]: allow disabling crashpad process

[pushkin-]

Describe the feature/enhancement you need

somewhat related to this issue #4965

Setting that flag to true or false doesn't disable the crashpad-handler process.

Electron somehow manages to disable it and only runs it when crash reporting is running.

Would be nice to turn it off when we don't need it.

The scenario/use case where you would use this feature

remove extra process, save memory

How important is this request to you?

Nice to have. There are other ways to tackle this, but having official API support would be beneficial.

Suggested implementation

I feel like that IsCustomCrashReportingEnabled property should control whether that process runs.

What does your app do? Is there a pending deadline for this request?

No response

[github-actions]

Hi, @pushkin-!

It seems that your issue contains the word "crash". If you have not already, could you attach a crash dump as a comment?

WV2 crash dumps are located in a subfolder of the app's user data folder (UDF): <UDF>\EBWebView\Crashpad\reports\. By default, the user data folder is created in the app's folder with a name like <App Exe Name>.exe.WebView2. Refer to Crash Diagnostics for more information.

Thank you for your cooperation!

[aluhrs13]

I don't think this is something we'd strongly consider. Crashpad's memory usage is pretty much in the single digit MB, often <1MB. If we did, it wouldn't be tied to IsCustomCrashReportingEnabled (or would be a breaking change) - that's intended for the app to say "I'm handling the reporting of my crashes myself" which may or may not use the crash dumps gathered by WV2.