Microsoft Edge's Efficiency Mode to improve browser Performance

Microsoft is rolling out a new Efficiency Mode to Edge users running canary build. The feature is more useful for laptop devices as it saves battery life by minimizing power usage. Edge reduces CPU and memory usage by working in conjunction with Sleeping Tabs.

Microsoft is always looking to improve Edge performance to ensure the browser is fast, smooth, responsive, and consumes fewer resources. With each version, the company is bringing Performance improvements to Edge.

So far, Edge received

Profile Guided optimizations (PGO)
Link Time optimizations (LTO)
Windows Segment Heap improvement,
Startup Boost, and sleeping Tabs

to address high memory and CPU usage issues.

Now, Edge has got the Efficiency Mode in the prerelease version.

Efficiency mode

Efficiency mode affects the way Sleeping Tabs works.

The inactive tabs will go to sleep and thus allocated system resources will be released automatically when you have plenty of tabs open.

Here is how the Edge’s new Performance feature works

If Sleeping Tabs turned on, background tabs go to sleep after 5 minutes of inactivity

When the laptop enters into battery mode, efficiency mode comes into play. It will be displayed through the Blue “heart pulse icon” on the toolbar.

The feature resembles Opera’s battery Saver, has a negative effect on your browsing experience. It makes

videos less smooth
animations in web pages to slow down when you’re not using the browser.

Enable or disable Efficiency mode in Microsoft Edge

Ensure you’re using the latest Edge Canary build 93.0.930.0 or later

Click on Settings and more icon
Select System and Performance
Under Optimize Performance, toggle Efficiency mode to on

Add Performance button to Toolbar

You can able to turn efficiency mode in Edge on or off quickly by adding the Performance button to the toolbar.

For that,

Click on Settings and more
Select Settings > Appearance, under Customize toolbar, Enable “show Performance button”

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