Microsoft Edge: How Sleeping Tabs Work - All Info

In today's Internet usage it has long been common to have a large number of tabs open at the same time. Microsoft Edge now takes care of resource management.

Sleeping on demand: sleeping tabs use fewer resources.

This is called sleeping tabs. The power that the browser takes from the PC eventually increases with each tab. Microsoft would like to counteract this.

Microsoft Edge: Sleeping Tabs explained

For this purpose, the so-called Sleeping Tabs were developed:

• Tabs that have not been opened for two hours are put to sleep, so to speak.
• They appear grayed out and are inactive, which directly relieves the memory and the processor.
• Nevertheless, the tabs remain present and are thus available at all times.
• In addition, on notebooks, the battery consumption is reduced.

If you want to keep one or more tabs on call for a longer period of time, Edge thus provides a practical assistance.