Advice Request Sleeping Tabs set-up - How many hours/minutes of inactivity?

Thread starter Ink
Start date Feb 11, 2021

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Put inactive tabs to sleep after the specified amount of time:

5 minutes
Votes: 1 11.1%
15 minutes
Votes: 2 22.2%
30 minutes
Votes: 1 11.1%
1 hour
Votes: 2 22.2%
2 hours (default)
Votes: 3 33.3%
3 hours
Votes: 0 0.0%
6 hours
Votes: 0 0.0%
12 hours
Votes: 0 0.0%

Total voters

9

Ink

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Feb 11, 2021

Go to `edge://settings/system`

Default is 2 hours of inactivity. Have you tweaked this setting that works better?

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Advice Request Sleeping Tabs set-up - How many hours/minutes of inactivity?

Put inactive tabs to sleep after the specified amount of time:

5 minutes

15 minutes

30 minutes

1 hour

2 hours (default)

3 hours

6 hours

12 hours

Ink

Administrator

Go to `edge://settings/system`

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Advice Request Sleeping Tabs set-up - How many hours/minutes of inactivity?

Put inactive tabs to sleep after the specified amount of time:

5 minutes

15 minutes

30 minutes

1 hour

2 hours (default)

3 hours

6 hours

12 hours

Ink

Administrator

Go to edge://settings/system​

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