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Microsoft

Sep 23, 2020

Introducing Sleeping Tabs Experiment: Improving Memory Usage in Microsoft Edge

Note: We are in the process of deploying this feature, so it may be a little while before you see it in your respective channel and build. To improve memory and CPU utilization of the browser, ...

raimond2

Brass Contributor

Oct 23, 2020

Eleanor_HuynhRE: "A sleeping tab resumes automatically when clicked, which is different than discarded tabs, which require the page to fully be reloaded."

Is there a discarded tabs feature also in Edge? If not I'd suggest a further 'power state' option that causes tabs to enter the discarded state after a set time in sleep state to save even more system resources.