Microsoft Edge, a web browser that is constantly gaining new capabilities, also has some features that other browsers do not have. One is to freeze background and unused tabs to save memory and improve browser performance. And now Microsoft has shared more details on how the feature makes memory consumption more efficient and how Edge is now better at understanding when to freeze tabs.
According to the statement, Edge’s sleep tabs saved 273 Petabytes of RAM in just 28 days. It also put 1.38 billion tabs to sleep in September alone, saving 83 percent of memory.
In addition to putting tons of tabs you never close to sleep, Microsoft Edge is now a little better at understanding when it should interfere with tabs and automatically putting pages to sleep. Of course, the feature still respects your exception lists and never freezes websites you tell the browser not to do.
It is possible to customize the Sleep Tabs in Edge Settings > System and performance > Optimize Performance.
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