Microsoft Edge’s new feature will stop tabs from eating your RAM

Microsoft is working on a new feature for Microsoft Edge that lets the browser tabs ‘sleep’ if the tabs have been running in the background to free up memory.

Last year, Google introduced a similar feature called ‘freeze tabs’ as a way to reduce the amount of RAM used by the browser and Microsoft Edge appears to be getting a better version of the same feature.

Microsoft Edge’s sleep tabs feature doesn’t actually close your tabs. In theory, it only suspends tabs that you’ve left fallow. According to an experimental flag in Edge Canary, this feature will automatically put idle background tabs to sleep to save resources.

If you’re someone who keeps over a dozen tabs open at any given time, this feature could help you boost the performance of Windows 10, especially on low-end hardware.

In addition, when it’s time to revisit that tab, you need to simply click on it.

It also appears that Microsoft will allow you to configure a timeout setting to decide when to put the background tabs to sleep automatically.

“Windows Sleeping Tabs should consider observed site characteristics as heuristic violations when opting-out domains. These characteristics are related to background notification such as modifying the tab title text, favicon, or playing audio while backgrounded,” Microsoft said.

We don’t know whether Microsoft will allow you to whitelist any tabs, but this functionality could be introduced too if there’s enough request from the testers.

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