Internal testing also showed that an average background tab uses 29% more CPU for Microsoft Edge than a sleeping tab. By default, sleeping tabs are enabled and set to sleep after two hours of inactivity. You can also change that to a longer duration if you like. To get started with enab...
In this video tutorial, you’ll learn how to save the resources of your device while browsing the internet with #MicrosoftEdge Chromium. I will guide you step by step through the feature Sleeping Tabs that put to sleep a tab when there is no more activity on it after a certa...
Microsoft has made some improvements to the sleeping tabs features in its Edge browser, saving even more of your PC's resources. With version 100 of Microsoft Edge, more of your tabs can be put to sleep, plus you can now visualize the resources you're saving by using them. ...
Beginning in Microsoft Edge 100,we’ve updated sleeping tabs to enable pages that are sharing a browsing instance with another page to now go to sleep. With this change, 8% more tabs on average will sleep, saving you even more resources! On average, each sleeping tab saves 85% of memory...
It puts inactive tabs to a special unloaded state, so they don't consume RAM and CPU. Once you switch back to such an unloaded tab, the browser instantly restores it in memory and loads its content. The user can customize the idle timeout after which Edge puts a tab into sleep mode....
As you can see in the attached image, background tabs that have been put to sleep will have a light gray color. The different color scheme will help you differentiate sleeping tabs from those that are active. You can also hove over a tab to find out if it's sleeping and E...
One way Microsoft Edge does this is by putting tabs to sleep when memory pressure is detected on your device. Sometimes the proactive steps that Microsoft Edge takes aren't enough to completely resolve the issue. For those instances, we built a feature called the Performance detector....
from going to sleep. We’re eager to get your feedback on sleeping tabs. If a tab doesn’t wake up like you expected, please refresh the page and let us know through Microsoft Edge by pressing Alt+Shift +I on Windows or by going toSettings and more…>Help and feedback>Send feed...
If you want a more flexible tab sleeper feature, check out the restored Great Suspender Original. That extension enables you to manually suspend (sleep) tabs or apply automatic tab suspension. You can add it to Edge by clicking theAdd to Chromebutton on the extension’s page linked below. R...
However, when Edge detects that you haven't looked at a tab for an extended period of time, it puts that tab "to sleep." When this happens, Edge releases the system resources used for that tab, thus giving you more processing power for the tabs you are using. By default, a tab goes...