It is not enough to open just one tab on your web browser. The need to cross-reference information and resources is inevitable. Sometimes, we want to park a website on one of the tabs and get back to it later on.
It is true to almost everyone and is useful at all times in increasing productivity. We can revisit pages that we like without having to search for it again. But, the drawback is, we are waisting the resources it hogs even when we are not browsing on the page.
Parking a website on a tab will still use up system resources. Just imagine how much your browser uses when you open many tabs all at the same time.
Now, Microsoft Edge has a solution. It has a new feature called Sleeping Tabs that will put inactive tabs on your browser to sleep. So, instead of using your system resources, the tabs become inactive even if they remain open in your browser.
How to Enable or Disable Sleeping Tabs Feature in Chromium Microsoft Edge Browser
Enabling Sleeping Tabs is easy. All you have to do is access the experimental flags in your Microsoft Edge browser. Just make sure that you have the latest version of the chromium-based browser. Follow the steps below on how you can do it.
- Launch your Microsoft Edge Browser.
- On the address bar, type edge://flags/#edge-sleeping-tabs. Press Enter.
- The Experimental Flag window will appear. You will then see the Enable Sleeping Tabs option.
- On the right side, click the drop-down menu.
- To enable the Sleeping Tabs feature, select Enabled. To disable it, select Disabled.
- Now, click the Restart button at the bottom of the screen.
Please note that this is an experimental flag. The Sleeping Tabs feature is available on Microsoft Edge 87 and later versions. However, Microsoft might remove this feature without notice in the next iterations of the browser, so use it while it’s still available.
How to Turn On and Off the Microsoft Edge Sleeping Tabs Mode
After you have enabled the Sleeping Tabs feature, you can now turn it on or off any time you want.
- On your Microsoft Edge browser, click the three-dotted icon found in the upper-right corner.
- Scroll down and select Settings.
- Choose System.
- Go to the Save resources section.
- To turn the Sleeping Tabs On, toggle the Save resources with sleeping tabs to Enable/On. To turn it off, toggle it to Off.
- You also have the option to specify the amount of time your tabs will be on sleeping mode. If you have specific websites in mind that you don’t want to be inactive, press the Add button, and enter the website URLs.
To know that your tabs are inactive or sleeping, they will be dimmed compared to active tabs.
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