Browsers and Mail Turn On or Off Fade Sleeping Tabs in Microsoft Edge

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This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off fade inactive tabs in Microsoft Edge for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Microsoft Edge is the AI-powered browser. A smarter way to browse. As the only browser built and optimized for Windows, it’s AI-powered tools are designed to help you make the most of your time online. Whether you’re searching, shopping or gaming, AI-powered tools and a security-first approach help you stay productive, save money, and get things done your way.

The sleeping tabs feature in Microsoft Edge makes background tabs sleep after two hours of inactivity by default in order to free up resources for active tabs, new tabs, and other applications on your device. Sleeping tabs will fade to indicate they’ve released resources. To resume a sleeping tab, click/tap on it like a normal tab. The tab will un-fade and your content will be immediately available.

When efficiency mode is turned on and active, inactive background tabs will be put to sleep after 5 minutes or less.

Starting with Microsoft Edge 153.0.4234.32+, the fading tab experience will be removed from the Microsoft Edge browser. The Fade inactive tabs setting will no longer be available in edge://settings/system/managePerformance and users will no longer see tabs fade. Note: This is a controlled feature rollout. If you don't see this change, check back as Microsoft continues the rollout.



References:

Learn about performance features in Microsoft Edge | Microsoft Support

Learn about performance features in Microsoft Edge, such as sleeping tabs, efficiency mode, and performance detector.
support.microsoft.com support.microsoft.com

Sleeping Tabs in Microsoft Edge | Save Memory and Improve Performance

Sleeping Tabs automatically put inactive tabs to sleep in Microsoft Edge to save memory, reduce CPU usage, and improve performance. Customize when tabs sleep and keep important sites active.
www.microsoft.com www.microsoft.com



Here's How:

1 Open Microsoft Edge.

2 Click/tap on the Settings and more (3 dots) button, and click/tap on Settings. (see screenshot below)

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3 Click/tap on System and performance in the left pane, and click/tap on Performance in the right pane. (see screenshot below)

If you do not see a left pane, then either click/tap on the 3 bars menu button towards the top left OR widen the horizontal borders of the Microsoft Edge window until you do.


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4 Under General, turn on (default) or off Fade inactive tabs for what you want. (see screenshot below)

Microsoft_Edge_fade_inactive_tabs-2.webp



That's it,
Shawn Brink


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Thank you Brink. Is it possible to achieve this with a group policy?
 

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