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Eleanor_Huynh
Microsoft
Sep 23, 2020Introducing 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, ...
Grant_Boucher
Jan 22, 2021Copper Contributor
The sleeping tabs do not free up VRAM on the GPU. That resource is far more constrained on modern computers than RAM. As such, this feature serves no meaningful purpose for me, unfortunately. 😞