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MicrosoftIntroducing Sleeping Tabs Experiment: Improving Memory Usage in Microsoft Edge
The setting edge://flags/#automatic-tab-discarding is missing from both edge standard and beta.
Today i was lucky to find an extention to disable the terrible funktion that makes Chrome and edge totally unrialable to display critical running webpages always in the background. Finally. thanks to this thread, i was able to find the fault by the edge://discards/
The only way to solve the problem now is to use an extention to bring the browser back to be reliable for us that need it to be reliable for critical running applications.
Https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-automatic-tab-dis/dnhngfnfolbmhgealdpolmhimnoliiok?hl=en
Sorry that i blamed the sleeping tabs to be the cause of the problem. The problem seems to be from chrome all the way back to 2015 when they introduced the tab discarding experiment: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/tab-discarding
The solution did not need any extention, it is just to toggle the Auto discard setting in edge://discards/
Now i know. Please inform the world about this, the people deserves to know about this solution to make edge reliable for critical running applications!
Not sure why you are spamming the thread with lots of comments, replying to yourself repeatedly, while you can put them all in 1.
sorry, i have no option to edit my posts and my post is by work in progress.
You was wrong when you said the sleeping tabs excemption list has always been there, it was not and even after updating to latest build. It is only in edge beta.
And work in progress discovered that sleeping tabs was not the problem but discarded tabs that was the problem from the beginning. You never suggested to check if the problem came from auto discarding tabs. It was just luck that i discovered that today after i followed the link seen here to edge://discards.
So if you want to help to make edge reliable for running critical apps in background please show me the link to discarded exception list for permanently making my critical tabs to stay awake forever even if in background without having to install extention to do the job.
I found the edit button now, but the delete button is there only on my latest post. Better to delete all the posts and mention the solution of discarding tabs problem in just one post.
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