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Introducing Sleeping Tabs Experiment: Improving Memory Usage in Microsoft Edge
The sleeping tabs have been driving me crazy the last months. I use a program for power control of electricity in my home to warn me of over-usage that is billed yearly from the electricity company. Every kWh electricity used in one hour adds 100 usd to my bill so i really need my program to work all the time! I had tried everything in the Edge settings to disable sleeping tabs but it never solved the horrible problem. The sleeping tabs have already added 300 usd to my electicity fee!
Today i see there is now a possibility to control the sleeping tabs and to add pages to never sleep. I see the example url *.domain.com but my program runs in localhost http://localhost:1880/ui/#!/1?socketid=ELP63alysfIYYMAcAABM#%2F0. So i tried to add it to the exeption list and will see if it now til work reliable if i decide to use another tab for browsing so i dont need to use the computer only for my program but for other browsing at the same time without "killing" my warnings i need so much.
My program is made in Node-Red and Node-Red runs locally in my computer. The display is Web user interface in Node-red and Microsoft Edge is the browser displaying the control panel and plays voice warning messages. So Edge must never ever go to sleep when my program is running! Edge even put my important electricity control panel page to sleep when running as Edge app!
Video of the working program at: https://youtu.be/GQTypW9Wxrg
- sungtrollFeb 12, 2021Brass Contributor
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- sungtrollFeb 12, 2021Brass Contributor
The setting edge://flags/#automatic-tab-discarding is missing from both edge standard and beta.
- HotCakeXFeb 10, 2021MVPSpoiler
sungtroll wrote:The sleeping tabs have been driving me crazy the last months. I use a program for power control of electricity in my home to warn me of over-usage that is billed yearly from the electricity company. Every kWh electricity used in one hour adds 100 usd to my bill so i really need my program to work all the time! I had tried everything in the Edge settings to disable sleeping tabs but it never solved the horrible problem. The sleeping tabs have already added 300 usd to my electicity fee!
Today i see there is now a possibility to control the sleeping tabs and to add pages to never sleep. I see the example url *.domain.com but my program runs in localhost http://localhost:1880/ui/#!/1?socketid=ELP63alysfIYYMAcAABM#%2F0. So i tried to add it to the exeption list and will see if it now til work reliable if i decide to use another tab for browsing so i dont need to use the computer only for my program but for other browsing at the same time without "killing" my warnings i need so much.
My program is made in Node-Red and Node-Red runs locally in my computer. The display is Web user interface in Node-red and Microsoft Edge is the browser displaying the control panel and plays voice warning messages. So Edge must never ever go to sleep when my program is running! Edge even put my important electricity control panel page to sleep when running as Edge app!
Video of the working program at: https://youtu.be/GQTypW9Wxrg
You just saw that exception list for sleeping tabs, but it has been Always there, since the beginning.
edge://settings/system
all you had to do is to go to settings and search for sleeping tabs. all of that could be easily prevented.
Add this to the list: "Never put these sites to sleep"
[*.]localhost
- sungtrollFeb 10, 2021Brass Contributor
No, it has not always been there. This is snapshot from today from Edge Versjon 87.0.664.66 (Offisiell build) (64-biters). I had the same problem with Edge beta and ever with chrome. The old Internet explorer worked always but with rendering problems.