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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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htmlcssjs
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Nov 23, 2020

HotCakeX I'm using Stable with the Edge flag and I love it. It just needs to not do Tab Wake upon hover, using last icon for tab thumbnail option, and allow tab sleep button to shut down tabs that use lots of memory. It would also be nice if you could open tabs while they are in sleep mode and see the last state of the tab without changes, allowing native scrolling.

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    HotCakeX
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    Nov 23, 2020

    htmlcssjs 

    it's an interesting idea, not waking tabs up and still interact with them.

    but I didn't know hovering over tabs would wake them up, it doesn't do it for me on Version 89.0.711.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)

    like I can hover over the sleep tab, I get to see the message that says this tab is sleeping, and after i move the mouse cursor away, the tab keeps sleeping.

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      Kam
      Silver Contributor
      Nov 23, 2020
      HotCakeX Not for me, too.
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        HotCakeX
        MVP
        Nov 23, 2020
        Ah good

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