Microsoft has announced an interesting improvement for its Edge browser. Starting with Edge 100, dormant tabs get an upgrade that ensures optimal performance when multiple pages share a browsing instance.
Web browsers are often accused of using too many resources on your computer, which has the effect of slowing it down, but above all of drastically reducing their general autonomy. The digital giants have therefore been striving for several years now tooptimize the performance of their software as much as possible.
To do this, Microsoft had integrated a feature into its Edge browser that allowed you to put tabs to sleep. That reduced CPU usage by 99% and RAM usage by 85%. Microsoft has now just updated this feature to the latest version of the browser.
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Microsoft Edge will increase the number of sleeping tabs
Microsoft Edge 100 was rolled out a few days ago, and is essentially a security update. However, Microsoft pointed out that the latest version improves browser performance with a more optimized version of sleeping tabs. By changing the way tabs go to sleep, Microsoft has announced that it will now sleep up to 8% more tabs.
If you want to get an idea of how much performance you save by using sleeping tabs, Microsoft has also added a dashboard that details all the data. If you open the three-dot menu in the upper right corner and then choose Performance, you can see what resources are being used and saved based on your currently open tabs.
This new update will therefore not only allow your computer to save even more resources, but also allow laptops to enjoy a bit longer battery life. This is not the first time that Microsoft has rolled out an update to increase autonomy since it unveiled a light mode on Edge at the end of last year that uses less system resources.
Source: Microsoft