Introducing Sleeping Tabs Experiment: Improving Memory Usage in Microsoft Edge

Eleanor_Huynh 

Sleeping Tabs;

Ok, so, I've now tested each of the allotted times you all have listed as available for putting tabs to sleep. For each time I've waited to click the sleeping tab anywhere from between 0 to an hour. On each time I've clicked the sleeping tab, the response was an immediate responsiveness, and I could not see or notice any delay.

Personally, I cannot see a reason to have a 2-hour delay for putting tabs to sleep when the awakening time is immediately. It's not like you have to wait a minute or even 3 seconds for the tab to awaken as it is again, I say immediate. With that said I've chosen to use the immediate setting because of how quickly they awaken. Maybe you could put in an increment of 5 minutes between the 0 to 15-minute time for those that want shorter than 15 minutes, but not the immediate setting/flag.

Now there are sites that I've had lately with the last 3 or so canary updates that I have had to wait for tabs to respond. Sites like Facebook, Walmart, amazon and even this forum "WHEN" I've had 8+ tabs opened on each of those sites for various reasons. With this immediate sleep time I no longer have any delay. I LOVE THIS SLEEPING TABS!!!! I don't have Vertical tabs yet, so I am not able to test it with that feature to see if there is any difference, but I don't think there would be.

So all in all, this feature is Working Great for me on my system.
Kudos to the Team, Great Job!!

Dennis5mile