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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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raimond2
Brass Contributor
Sep 26, 2020

Eleanor_Huynh 

 

This is a much needed function, thank you.  I often have many tabs open that unnecessarily slow down my machine and use most of it's memory. 

 

For this feature, please include a right click tab menu item "Put tab to sleep' that changes to "Wake tab" after the tab has gone to sleep.  To wake the tab again user must either select 'Wake tab' from the right click menu, or hit refresh, or select another tab and come back to this tab.

 

Thanks

Raimond

  • Eleanor_Huynh's avatar
    Eleanor_Huynh
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    Sep 29, 2020

    raimond2, it's great to understand how this feature is working with your browser habits - thanks for sharing this. We will keep your feedback in mind.  Thank you for giving this feature a try. Looking forward to any future feedback you might have.

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    raimond2
    Brass Contributor
    Sep 27, 2020

    Also please add menu item "Sleep tabs" when right clicking a selection of multiple tabs.

  • HotCakeX's avatar
    HotCakeX
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    Sep 26, 2020
    No more right-click menu items please, there are way too many at the moment already, makes finding the option you want harder.
    • Pvrtwo's avatar
      Pvrtwo
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 24, 2021
      This is true but until they finally give us the option to hide/remove idem's we don't
      use this will be an issue with ALL right click issues especially having 2 Bing search types sidebar and reg search in a new tab its bad enough that it can't be customized for your default search engine but if they won't give us the option to do that at least give us the option to remove it complexly if we don't want it or use it 😉
      • HotCakeX's avatar
        HotCakeX
        MVP
        Apr 25, 2021
        If you don't want to use sleeping tabs then turn it off.
        edge://settings/system
    • raimond2's avatar
      raimond2
      Brass Contributor
      Sep 27, 2020

      Strongly disagree.  The tab right click menu is sectioned off into 3 sections.  I don't have any trouble finding what I need.  The put tab to sleep item could go in the same section as Close tab which only has 3 items in it.  Are you using the right click menu so many times in rapid succession that you're getting slowed down by the number of items in it? 

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        HotCakeX
        MVP
        Sep 27, 2020
        Too many right-click menu items already, long and crowded right-click menu is not helpful and slows down the usage.
        there are way too many options already in the right-click on tabs that are not often used:

        such as "add all tabs to favorite" - "refresh" (F5 button or the refresh icon next to address bar is more often used instead) - new tab (the + plus sign is more often used to open a new tab) - close tab (the X button next to each tab is more often used) - duplicate tab.

        if they somehow get rid of those options, then fine, other than that nope, it'd be a regression to keep adding more option to the right-click menu that is rarely used by majority.

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