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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, ...

Alex_Tasi

Copper Contributor

Feb 23, 2021

Eleanor_Huynh

The idea is good/perfect, but it does not work. There is no way to force a tab to go to sleep (Being a single tab command or a global command), and there are tons of pages not being used up and running, eating up memory... I changed configuration to 5 minutes, tried also 15 minutes, but got the same results. Not all pages sleep. (Edge running version 88.0.705.74 (64 bits))

HotCakeX
MVP
Feb 23, 2021
Alex_Tasi

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Alex_Tasi wrote:
Eleanor_Huynh
The idea is good/perfect, but it does not work. There is no way to force a tab to go to sleep (Being a single tab command or a global command), and there are tons of pages not being used up and running, eating up memory... I changed configuration to 5 minutes, tried also 15 minutes, but got the same results. Not all pages sleep. (Edge running version 88.0.705.74 (64 bits))
"...There is no way to force a tab to go to sleep..."

yes there is 🙂

here it is + video guide

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/great-new-features-tabs-groups-auto-create-tab-groups-collapse/m-p/1953865/highlight/true#M39916