It's frustrating to lose system resources to programs that you're not even actively using. Minimized browser windows, vendor ...

Starting in September, Microsoft Edge 105 introduced the ability to sleep high-resource tabs. The feature only kicks in when your device’s memory is near the limit. In September, Edge put to sleep 1.3 ...

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Since the vast majority of Internet users are surfing with Google Chrome, the use of a large amount of memory is infamous. That's about to change though, thanks to an unlikely ally - Microsoft Edge.

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The other day, I found myself staring at my laptop screen, frustrated yet again as Chrome guzzled up my RAM like it was an ...

Coming in a report via The Verge, although currently only available for Windows Insider members, the latest version of Edge will offer consumers a new ‘performance’ mode which, in a nutshell (and ...