Policy
Configure sleeping tabs
Microsoft Edge
Policy overview
Key metadata and intent for this policy.
Supported OS tags: Windows7
This policy setting lets you configure whether to turn on sleeping tabs. Sleeping tabs reduces CPU, battery, and memory usage by putting idle background tabs to sleep. Microsoft Edge uses heuristics to avoid putting tabs to sleep that do useful work in the background, such as display notifications, play sound, and stream video. By default, sleeping tabs is turned on. Individual sites may be blocked from being put to sleep by configuring the policy 'SleepingTabsBlockedForUrls' (Block sleeping tabs on specific sites). If this policy is enabled, sleeping tabs are turned on. If this policy is disabled, sleeping tabs are turned off. However, during moderate memory pressure, the system may freeze (sleep) tabs before discarding them. If this policy is not configured, users can choose whether to enable sleeping tabs.
Registry values
How enabled and disabled states update the registry.
| Scope | Registry location | Type | Enabled value | Disabled value | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Path Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\Recommended Value name SleepingTabsEnabled | REG_DWORD | HKLM 1 HKCU 1 | HKLM 0 HKCU 0 |
Policy elements
Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.
This policy has no additional user input fields.