Elain Brown Tech 04.11.2022 00:Apr AM EDT

Try the Improved Microsoft Edge: New Sleeping Tabs Tweaks Actually Boost Performance

Microsoft Edge is rolling out powerful tweaks for sleeping tabs.

Microsoft has modified the sleeping tabs feature in Microsoft Edge, in addition to improving the responsiveness and performance of the web browser in general.

Although this recent sleeping tab improvement was released in December 2020, the Microsoft Edge browser in Beta 88 has experienced the design ease the company developed.

Edge users running Beta 88 saw significant reductions in memory and CPU resource usage. However, the Microsoft Edge team stated that they have updated the sleeping tabs to enable pages that are sharing a browsing instance with another page to now go to sleep in Microsoft Edge 100.

Microsoft Edge Update

The Microsoft Edge Update features sleeping tabs with a reduced amount of memory and CPU time that the browser consumes. To conserve system resources and improve speed and efficiency, Microsoft Edge will put users' tabs to sleep when they haven't been used for a while. The sleeping tabs in the browser will, however, be reactivated as soon as they are opened again.

As reported by Microsoft, in the newly released 100th version of Microsoft Edge, the company has improved sleeping tabs to allow pages that are sharing a browsing instance with another page to now be put to sleep as a result of the update.

As a result of this change, on average, 8% more tabs will sleep. This will allow users to be capable of saving more resources. This new Microsoft Edge update saves an average of 85 % of its memory and 99 % of its CPU when a tab is in sleep mode.

Performance is now available under the "..." ("Settings and more") menu, allowing users to see how much memory sleeping tabs are able to save.

Sleeping tabs, in general, are immediately inactive tabs in the background to go to sleep, releasing system resources after a predefined amount of time has elapsed. These can be used to send resources to tabs that are currently open or have recently been opened so that they can be used.

As reported by Bleeping Computer, using Microsoft Edge, the browser will put to sleep tabs that have been inactive for two hours by default. However, just like with any other browser, this setting can be changed to meet the user's needs on the "Edge:/settings/system" page.

Usually, users can reactivate a sleeping tab with a single mouse click. Users can also choose to add websites that they don't want to be blocked by this feature to a blocklist that can be found on the same Settings page. This feature can also be turned off.

Sleeping Tabs

The Microsoft Edge team is on a mission to create a browser that prevents users from slowing down their workflow. With that, the Microsoft team developed sleeping tabs.

Sleeping tabs allow the browser to reduce the amount of memory and CPU usage.

Sleeping tabs help to optimize a user's browser performance by freeing up resources for the tabs that are actually being used.

It also helps users get more battery life because a sleeping tab uses 37% less CPU on average than a non-sleeping tab. In Microsoft Edge, using sleeping tabs can reduce memory usage by an average of 32%, according to the company.

Implementing an improved sleeping tab has allowed Microsoft to receive better feedback from their users, although performances still vary on the users' individual devices and usage.