Microsoft Edge. Bring back the option to fade inactive apps.

+1, please restore this useful feature. It speeds my workflow so much being able to visually immediately see which tabs I was recently working on. 

I agree with all the contributors. Please bring back fade sleeping tabs for the reasons stated. However there is another reason. I have just spent more than an hour trying to work out what is wrong on my machine, researching on the web and trying to change the sleep interval, even rebooting, because all my many tabs appeared to be live, not sleeping. It is only by chance that I have found this conversation. Microsoft are great at telling you the new features they have introduced. I think one of them in the past was greyed out sleeping tabs. They are not so good at telling you what features they have taken away. And in this case, why on earth they have done so. There seems no benefit to the world here 🤡

I'd also like this fading tabs feature restored. I just updated to the latest version of Edge and was appalled that this essential feature is removed.

Like others have mentioned, fading tabs help in my workflow in the following ways:
1. Clear visual indication for the psychological reassurance that sleeping tabs are indeed sleeping and not hogging up resources (which is very important when you have 100+ tabs open). edge://discard does not even work reliably when you have a large number of tabs open.
2. It allows me to see which tabs I have interacted with recently (within minutes or so), letting me follow my train of thought during each research session more clearly while ignoring the clutter/noise of other currently unrelated tabs (reserved for another research session), as I have sleeping tabs set to 30 seconds (also as n3n5n1 pointed out, wish this is customisable so I can set an even lower value). I suppose this is even more apparent while using vertical tabs, which I believe most people like me who have many tabs open at any given time have already adopted as the standard.
3. Brighter colours are not easy on the eyes - again, adding to the visual clutter and lost productivity.

Please revert this change. It was fine before as an option where users have a choice, even if it was opt-in. What was the reason for removing this choice at all?

Kelly_Y​ thank you for relaying our concerns to the Edge team!

Please restore the faded tabs.  The colors are too bright and saturated -- which is not only distracting but makes it more difficult to find the tab one is looking for.  The over saturation also makes the tabs appear blurry.   It's giving me a headache.

Looking to switch to Chrome until this is resolved.

I upvote this. The fading icon serves 2 purposes:
1. It provides reassurance that the sleeping tabs feature is working as intended, without requiring users to determine whether it's actually sleeping manually by going to edge://discards.
2. The difference between greyed-out and normal icons helps users quickly distinguish tabs that have not been visited recently from tabs that have been visited recently. This is useful when a user wants to go back to the recently visited tabs while navigating through many tabs. This change removes a visual cue from the browser interface.

Restore the greyed-out tabs icon appearance for sleeping tabs. Alternatively, provide a setting that allows users to enable or disable this visual indicator according to their preferences.

Hi DevJames27​ - Thanks for the feedback!  I would like to provide the team with additional information.  Can you share how was fading tabs helping your workflow? Any additional details or examples would be very helpful!

-Kelly