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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, ...

Copper Contributor

Feb 11, 2021

hi after enable sleeping tabs , it seems it doen't work because none of tabs turned gray and there is no "this tab is sleeping" pop up in my tabs

HotCakeX
MVP
Feb 12, 2021
Hamidreza20
Hamidreza20 wrote:
hi after enable sleeping tabs , it seems it doen't work because none of tabs turned gray and there is no "this tab is sleeping" pop up in my tabs
What does your timeout setting look like?
edge://settings/system

if you want to dig deeper, you can also view why a tab can't go to sleep by going here: edge://discards/
and in the "can't sleep?" column, you can view the reasons if you hover over them.
- Hamidreza20
  Copper Contributor
  Feb 12, 2021
  HotCakeX thanks alot for guide, i put 5 min inactivity timeout , and " in Can Sleep?" column , it says "tab is currently holding an indexedDB lock" , how can i solve this? and is "sleeping tab" feature in edge as useful as great suspender?
  - HotCakeX
    MVP
    Feb 12, 2021
    Hamidreza20
    Hamidreza20 wrote:
    HotCakeX thanks alot for guide, i put 5 min inactivity timeout , and " in Can Sleep?" column , it says "tab is currently holding an indexedDB lock" , how can i solve this? and is "sleeping tab" feature in edge as useful as great suspender?
    
    you're welcome,
    great suspender was identified as malware and removed from extension stores.
    sleeping tabs in Edge is better than that, yes.
    you can't solve it, it's the website that has that behavior. like I said, Edge sleeping tabs is smart not to break website functionality.

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