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Eleanor_Huynh
Microsoft
Sep 23, 2020Introducing 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, ...
raimond2
Sep 26, 2020Brass Contributor
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