

Animations to slow down when you’re not interacting with the browser.


While we do our best to minimize impact to your experience, performance mode may cause:.Timer will go back to its previous selection when you’re not in performance mode. Puts background tabs to sleep after 5 minutes of inactivity (if sleeping tabs is on).Performance improvements might vary depending on your device specifications and individual browser habits Details: Microsoft will likely explain how it plans to improve Edge’s performance in much more detail soon.This mode helps optimize your browser’s performance by saving battery and minimizing resource usage (memory, CPU). 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. Unlike Chrome’s freeze tab feature, Microsoft says Edge will allow you to choose a different time interval in Settings > System. 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. 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.
