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Eleanor_Huynh
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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, ...
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Larry_T1963
Copper Contributor
May 01, 2021
I have a question about sleeping tabs: When I type 'sleep' into the search box on the about:flags page, it says, "no matching experiments." Also, when searching using 'enable', as soon as I type the 's' for 'sleep' after enable, it comes up with the same "no matching experiments" message. However, in the browser settings, the option is there and it does work. Is this normal? The reason I ask is that I'm not able to even test the immediate sleep feature. On the release version I am able to find the enable options in it's flags. Is it possible that I only have the sleeping tabs here in the Beta version because of sync? I should also note that the flags are also not accessible in Canary and Dev versions yet the sleeping tabs option is functional. Anyway, with all that said, LOVE the feature and agree with others that anything much over 2-5 minutes doesn't seem useful.
  • Dennis5mile's avatar
    Dennis5mile
    Silver Contributor
    May 02, 2021
    As I've stated several times in this thread including the post just before yours. It has been removed and there is no word on if it will be added to the list of options, or placed back into the flags area.

    We are still waiting for a reply to this question.

    Dennis5mile
    • sungtroll's avatar
      sungtroll
      Brass Contributor
      May 02, 2021
      This post has got 213 000 views. I guess microsoft dont read it. All answers made here are posted by people not working on this project so posting here is pointless if you someone wants to report bugs and suggestions and get answers from Microsoft.
      • HotCakeX's avatar
        HotCakeX
        MVP
        May 03, 2021

        sungtroll 

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        sungtroll wrote:
        This post has got 213 000 views. I guess microsoft dont read it. All answers made here are posted by people not working on this project so posting here is pointless if you someone wants to report bugs and suggestions and get answers from Microsoft.

        Can't say they don't read it, they're not gonna post every time in the comments that "ok we read this".

        also the the number of views doesn't mean unique visitors. whenever you refresh the page, it counts as a view.

         

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