Microsoft brings Sleeping tabs function to Microsoft Edge
In response to the problem of browser memory resource consumption, Google Chrome has previously launched a frozen tab, which freezes inactive tabs to reduce memory resource expenditure.
A few days ago, Microsoft also brought a similar function. What Microsoft added to the browser is the tab sleep function, which also reduces the resource consumption of inactive tabs.
Of course, different from Google is that Microsoft allows users to make their own settings, such as setting tabs to sleep after a few hours of inactivity to avoid affecting usage.
When the browser opens more tabs, it consumes more memory. However, Google has proposed many methods for the power consumption problem caused by hardware resource usage.
The frozen tabs of Google Chrome are automatically operated. When it detects that a certain tab has not been opened for a period of time, it will automatically freeze and release the memory.
However, after the user clicks the frozen page again, it may need to be reloaded. If it is reloaded, the network will be occupied and the battery will be consumed to reduce battery life.
So Microsoft has made improvements on this basis, allowing users to set the freezing time, for example, a tab will automatically sleep if it has not been opened for two hours.
This not only saves memory resources but also avoids short-term fast sleep that causes page reloading and rendering to consume more power, which is slightly better than Google’s.
Currently, this feature is only tested in the Canary version, so only users of the Microsoft Edge Canary version can see the sleep tab in the experimental options.
Canary version users can go to: edge://flags/ and search “#edge-sleeping-tabs”
Restart the browser after setting the above options to the on the state, then visit Settings > System > Put inactive tabs to sleep after a specified amount of time.
You can proactively set how long to sleep on tabs, you can also add a specific website to the whitelist, and not sleep on the website even if the time is exceeded.
Via: techdows
