Microsoft brings the Sleeping Tab feature to desktop and laptop with Edge stable version 88 update. If you enable the feature, inactive tabs will go to sleep mode after a specified time and saves system resources. It’ll improve the browser performance. To get this feature, update the Edge browser to the latest version (v88.0.705.50). To check the update, go to Help and feedback and choose About Microsoft Edge.
Steps to Enable Freezing Tab in Microsoft Edge
Inactive Tabs has two options – Time duration, after which Edge should put a tab to sleep and exclude webpages from going to sleep. If you don’t want some sites to go to sleep mode straightaway, you can choose the time duration for them. You can select 5 minutes to 12hours as per your requirement and system RAM. Similarly, if you want some sites to always alive, you can add them to the list. Next to Never put these sites to sleep, click on Add button, enter the webpage URL and save the setting.
How to Identify a Sleeping Tap and How to Awake it
Look at an open tab. Websites favicon and page title will fade out when it freezes. To awake a frozen tab/webpage, click on the greyed-out tab, and it will wake up instantly. If a webpage doesn’t wake up, refresh the page. More Resources: How to reduce startup time of Microsoft EdgeEnable hidden color themes and customize Microsoft EdgeHow to change Bing to Google Search in EdgeUse Microsoft Edge’s daily background image as your Phone’s and PC’s wallpaper
