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MissyQ
Jul 13, 2021Former Employee
Discussion - Allow users to put individual tabs to sleep
Hi Insiders, thanks so much for your feedback on the sleeping tabs experience in the new Microsoft Edge. From reading your comments, it is clear that many of you would like an easy way to put individ...
Dennis5mile
Aug 05, 2021Silver Contributor
This is just as good as Immediately. Though I have to wonder why you cannot just add immediately to the list. But, Thanks for this addition.
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Alexandra-R
Aug 05, 2021Former Employee
That's actually a really good question, and I'm not just saying that because I have a really good answer! This is the shortest timer we're comfortable with offering to avoid site compatibility issues. The team understands that folks really want an immediate timer and got as close to that as they could without creating other issues that would make the setting less desirable or require a lot of exceptions!
- Dennis5mileAug 05, 2021Silver Contributor
I am curious though, when this was first offered for canary, I used "immediately all the time and I found no trouble at all as I had reported on the article page that was started for it Sleeping tabs blog . So I am curious as to what issues happened with the immediately being set?
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- Alexandra-RAug 05, 2021Former EmployeeI believe the previous 'immediate' timer was also actually 'almost immediate', and this update is more explicit about the timer vs calling it immediate.
- Dennis5mileAug 18, 2021Silver Contributor
There we go. I like the way you changed the wording less than a minute choice.
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