Sleep tabs in Microsoft Edge are nothing new. Microsoft had rolled them out in Edge 88, released in December 2020. But this feature that puts unused open tabs to sleep to reduce your PC’s memory occupation and CPU usage has so far hardly had evolved.
With the recent release of version 100 of its browser, Microsoft has announced that it has changed the behavior of this feature. Now all tabs sharing a browsing instance with another paused page will also be paused. “With this change, 8% more tabs on average will go to sleep, saving you even more resources. On average, each tab saves up to 85% memory and 99% processor occupancy for Microsoft Edge,” explains the Redmond giant in a blog post.
To accompany this novelty, Microsoft has integrated into the Settings of its browser a panel dedicated to performance, which allows you to view the number of tabs on standby and the savings in resources made.
Source : Microsoft