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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, ...

vivik

Copper Contributor

Feb 07, 2021

Eleanor_Huynh I had already turned it on using edge://flags and selected for immediate sleeping. Now as this feature permanently rolled out for Edge, you can't even select the time out for the same. Even changing it again from edge://flags didn't affect at all. WTH!

HotCakeX

MVP

Feb 09, 2021

vivik

vivik wrote:
Eleanor_Huynh I had already turned it on using edge://flags and selected for immediate sleeping. Now as this feature permanently rolled out for Edge, you can't even select the time out for the same. Even changing it again from edge://flags didn't affect at all. WTH!

I'm checking and the flag is still available in Edge stable version 88.0.705.63

so just go to the flags and either set this to default or disable it:

edge://flags/#edge-sleeping-tabs-immediate-timeout