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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...
AMartinelli
Feb 05, 2026Occasional Reader
Here's my use-case in which I would find useful to have the option to manually put tabs to sleep (without having to wait for the timer to elapse): suppose during my work I have to interact for a limited time with a page from which I use a chat application (like whats app): as long as I use it, I receive notifications from it and everything is good.
However, when I need no more this page (I'll likely need it again, maybe in one day, maybe in one hour, so I don't want to close the window), I want it to go to sleep immediately in order to prevent continuing to receive notifications I'm not interested in.