After integrating Music Player and making Chrome web Store extensions installation native, Opera Software is adding a more useful feature to its Opera browser. The next Opera update has a memory-saving tab snoozing built-in and enabled by default.
What you need to know:
- Edge Legacy lets you snooze tabs
- Firefox has tested the Snooze Tabs experiment and is currently available as an extension.
- New Edge Chromium has a Sleeping Tabs feature to throttle tabs.
- Opera is now getting a memory-saving feature called Tab snoozing. The feature is currently available in Opera 74 or later versions.
Enable Tab Snoozing in Opera 74
- Click on Opera Menu, select Settings (Alt+P)
- Scroll down to User Interface
- Toggle “Snooze inactive tabs to save memory” to enable if turned off
To disable the feature
Follow steps 1 and 2, and reverse the third-step.
Contrary to what we see with the Snooze Tab extensions, you can’t set a time period in Opera.
Opera takes care of the feature and we don’t know after much time, inactive abs get snoozed in the browser.
You’ll be shown a notification at the top when that happens. (check the first screenshot).
What’s your take on Opera’s Tab Snoozing feature? Let us know in the comments below.
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