Microsoft will likely explain how it plans to improve Edge’s performance in much more detail soon. In addition, Microsoft has also confirmed that they’re working on other areas to make Chromium Edge faster.

To enable this feature, you’ll need to install Edge Canary and enable experimental flags titled ‘Sleeping Tabs’ in edge://flags menu. If you don’t want Edge to kill off your tabs for Twitter or Outlook, you can add sites to the whitelist. My profile was 109GB thanks to an Icloud backup made no difference on my machine but its running an SSD and has 32gb ram so not a potato of a machine. Unlike Chrome’s freeze tab feature, Microsoft says Edge will allow you to choose a different time interval in Settings > System. Back before the modern windows profile bloat was an issue however today with SSDs and cheap ram/ powerful processor not so much. When frozen, Edge will stop tabs from performing actions and running script until you interact with tabs again.īy default, your browsing tabs will go to sleep after you don’t use it for two hours.

With sleeping tabs and Chromium’s freezing technology, Microsoft aims to freeze the contents of the tab. If you think that you might still need the extension. The short story is that Edge will put background tabs to sleep automatically to reduce overall memory and CPU usage, which will contribute to battery savings.Īpparently, Microsoft Edge new tab resources management feature is based on Chromium’s “freezing” feature. Uninstall all firefox extensions and themes that you dont use as they can cause Firefox to use more RAM.

Firefox taking too much memory