How to enable sleeping tabs in Microsoft Edge (Chromium)

If you are using Microsoft Edge Chromium browser and want to improve its performance, this article may interest you. Basically, when we are surfing Internet via a browser, we may open multiple tabs. These multiple tabs may force the browser to use much of the system resources. Because the browser has to ensure that all the tabs remains live. This can put an effective burden on system resources like CPU, memory, disk, battery etc. To resolve this problem, ‘Sleeping tabs‘ were introduced in Microsoft Edge. In this article, we will see how you can enable Sleeping tabs in Microsoft Edge Chromium.

This post on the Microsoft Edge blogs says that by using Sleeping tabs, you can reduce 32% of memory usage on an average. Also, you can decrease CPU usage by 37% on an average, if you have Sleeping tabs enabled. Here, less CPU usage can significantly improve the battery performance.

So to improve the performance of your Microsoft Edge Chromium browser, it is recommended that you enable Sleeping tabs. Here’s how to do that.

FYI: Sleeping tabs feature is only available in Microsoft Edge 87 or later.

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How to enable Sleeping tabs in Microsoft Edge (Chromium)

Method 1 – Using Microsoft Edge Settings

Follow these steps to enable Sleeping tabs.

Open Microsoft Edge. Click on triple dots to open fly-out menu and select Settings.
In the Settings screen, click on hamburger icon and click System.
Under System, locate Save resources. To enable Sleeping tabs, turn On the Save resources with sleeping tabs option. You can then configure the time, after which tabs will be in Sleeping mode due to inactivity. You can also add the sites you frequently visit, to configure the setting targeting specific sites.

How to enable sleeping tabs in Microsoft Edge Chromium