Edge, every website you open on a new tab consumes a certain amount of
memory, and the more tabs you open the more system memory the browser will
use.
Although you can use Chrome extensions, such as “The Great Suspender,”
designed to reduce the memory footprint of the browser, Microsoft Edge has a
new “Tab Freeze” feature that freezes those tabs that you haven’t been
interacting with after five minutes freeing up memory and processor being
consumed by the tab.
In this article, you’ll learn the steps to enable Tab Freeze to save memory
when using multiple tabs on the Chromium version of Microsoft Edge for
Windows 10 and macOS.
To enable Tab Freeze on Microsoft Edge, use these steps:
01. Open Microsoft Edge.
02. Type the following path in the address bar to open the Flags settings
in the new feature location:
edge://flags/#proactive-tab-freeze
03. Use the drop-down menu on the right and select the Enabled option.
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04. Click the Restart button.
Once you complete the steps, when the tab has been running in the background
for five minutes, the feature will freeze the tab reducing the amount of
memory in use.
These steps are meant to enable Tab Freeze using the Flags settings, but
eventually, the feature should ship enabled automatically with Microsoft
Edge.
