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MicrosoftIntroducing Sleeping Tabs Experiment: Improving Memory Usage in Microsoft Edge
sungtroll wrote:
Please give us option to protect our tabs from discarding in the same way as we now have the option to protect our tabs from sleeping trough the setting "Never put these sites to sleep". I strongly need to list my tabs running on localhost to never be discarded. Please introduce a new setting to "Never DISCARD these sites". It will bring back the browser to be trustworthy for 24/7 monitoring even if we using web browser for alarm monitioring and want to read the news when there is no alarms sounding.
Please put this request on the most urgent todo list.
define discarding.
the only feature that temporarily puts tabs to sleep is sleeping tabs in Edge, without it, tabs work forever as long as your computer is on.
see my previous posts if you dont understand. Your answer is absolutely wrong!. I made this picture to explain it to you "with a spoon". There you have the proof!. If you still dont get it then please dont bother to reply to my posts. It is unbelieveable that someone ever came up with the idea of saving resources by killing important tabs the user need to run 24/7 365 days a year!
The sleeping tabs is a great improvement with the possibillity to prevent tabs from sleeping and i love to put all my tabs to sleep immediately. But the crazy unloading by urgent discard is the worst nightmare ever in my 25 years of using computers making my computer extremly unreliable! So it need to be fixed urgent at high priority now that i have explained why!
Does it help to post anything in this thread? Does the people in charge of Edge development ever read this thread?
- to send feedback straight to developers, specially about these technical issues, there is feedback system and button on Edge.
how often do your tabs get discarded automatically? every how many hours/days etc?
does it still happen when you completely turn off sleeping tabs?Yes it happens even when disabling the sleeping tabs feature from the flags.
The tabs i depend so much on is freezing at least once every hour, many times after so little as the time i use to write an email in outlook. If you want to reproduce the problem open a lot of tabs and in one of them run at script playing a sound once every 15 minutes. Go to another tab or program and you will discover that the sound will not play anymore after you have left the tab for a while. The solution until now was making sure the tab is in focus at all time, but now after i discovered the toggle to disable Automatic discarding everything works fine even if i leave the tab unfocused for days.
The "never put these sites to sleep" must also ensure they never is unloaded by discarding too to make the function reliable. If i tell Edge they should never be put to sleep it is absolutely horrible that edge unload the site anyway by automatic discard!
The horrible "feature" that makes chrome unreliable for displaying critical web pages.
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/tab-discarding
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sungtroll wrote:Yes it happens even when disabling the sleeping tabs feature from the flags.
The tabs i depend so much on is freezing at least once every hour, many times after so little as the time i use to write an email in outlook. If you want to reproduce the problem open a lot of tabs and in one of them run at script playing a sound once every 15 minutes. Go to another tab or program and you will discover that the sound will not play anymore after you have left the tab for a while. The solution until now was making sure the tab is in focus at all time, but now after i discovered the toggle to disable Automatic discarding everything works fine even if i leave the tab unfocused for days.
The "never put these sites to sleep" must also ensure they never is unloaded by discarding too to make the function reliable. If i tell Edge they should never be put to sleep it is absolutely horrible that edge unload the site anyway by automatic discard!
The horrible "feature" that makes chrome unreliable for displaying critical web pages.
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/tab-discarding
I agree with you and thanks for explanation,
the exception list in for sleeping tabs should exempt those websites from both sleeping tabs + tab discarding.
i will send feedback for this.