Let idle sites sleep
Ten live background pages annoy the fan first.
1.7.0 sleeps unused sites on a timeout and wakes them on click. 5 / 10 / 30 minutes / 1 hour. The tab greys; a moon marks it. The page you are reading stays live.
Pro sleeps on your timeout, not a hard count. Turn the master switch off and sites stay open. Free still caps two live sites; over the cap the longest idle sleeps and unloads so the memory board does not grow a fake extra process row.
Idle sites sleep: the tab greys, a moon marks it. Click to wake. Pro sleeps on your timeout, not a hard count.
Settings
Settings → Performance. Never sleep one site: override it in the site editor, or turn the master off. Manual sleep: tab menu, or the moon in the window switcher.
The memory board is process RSS. It does not invent a megabyte per tab.
Do not
- Do not put a 5-minute sleep on a board you auto-refresh. Pick one.
- Do not read “slept” as signed out. Wake and the session is still on this computer.
- Do not turn off official Cloud to save RAM. Cloud does not run your page processes.
Moving the layout: Cloud copies setup, not cookies.