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Configure sleeping tabs

Supported versions

  • On Windows and macOS since 88 or later

Description

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.

If you enable this setting, sleeping tabs is turned on.

If you disable this setting, sleeping tabs is turned off.

If you don't configure this setting, users can choose whether to use sleeping tabs.

Supported features

  • Can be mandatory: Yes
  • Can be recommended: Yes
  • Dynamic Policy Refresh: Yes
  • Per Profile: Yes
  • Applies to a profile that is signed in with a Microsoft account: No

Data type

  • Boolean

Windows information and settings

Group Policy (ADMX) info

  • GP unique name: SleepingTabsEnabled
  • GP name: Configure sleeping tabs
  • GP path (Mandatory): Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Sleeping tabs settings
  • GP path (Recommended): Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge - Default Settings (users can override)/Sleeping tabs settings
  • GP ADMX file name: MSEdge.admx

Example value

Enabled

Registry settings

  • Path (Mandatory): SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge
  • Path (Recommended): SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\Recommended
  • Value name: SleepingTabsEnabled
  • Value type: REG_DWORD

Example registry value

0x00000001

Mac information and settings

  • Preference Key name: SleepingTabsEnabled
  • Example value:
<true/>

See also