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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, ...

ikjadoon

Bronze Contributor

Feb 07, 2021

Eleanor_Huynh

I've been using this for a few days and I gotta say, it's absolutely wonderful. Significantly lower CPU usage, it reminds me to close tabs I'm really not using or just to "get" to them, cooler running laptop, and hopefully it encourages websites to stop running timers all the time.

I'd love to read a deep-dive on what was added to Chromium's freeze function to create Edge's sleep function: what are the major differences?