By Hamed Paydarfar
Publication Date: 2026-10-16 11:47:00
Summary
- Microsoft Edge now puts inactive tabs to sleep after 15 minutes by default, down from two hours.
- The shorter timeout helps reclaim RAM and CPU resources sooner, particularly on PCs with 8GB or 16GB of memory.
- Chrome offers a similar Memory Saver feature, but Edge applies its more aggressive behavior automatically.
To make its browser more efficient, Microsoft now puts inactive tabs in Edge to sleep after 15 minutes by default. Microsoft confirmed this in the official Stable Channel release notes, which mention that the change applies starting with version 152.0.4188.0.
Sleeping Tabs suspends background pages to free up some RAM and…
