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If Chrome gets more memory efficient + features like screenshot, Edge will be dead forever.

Edge uses the space wisely around the tabs and overall. Chrome looks barebone in terms of features. Microsoft will likely explain how it plans to improve Edge’s performance in much more detail soon. Edge is full of features that made my life easy - screenshot tools, sleeping-tab feature etc. 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.