How to Always keep sites active while using Energy Saver in Microsoft Edge
Energy Saver in Microsoft Edge keeps your laptop battery alive longer by putting idle tabs to sleep when your battery drops to 15 percent. This power-saving tool stops background tasks on web pages, which can accidentally pause live video streams, music, or work apps you need to keep running.
Microsoft Edge lets you stop this from happening by adding specific web addresses to an exemption list. You can pick exact sites that must stay awake and active at all times, no matter how low your battery gets.
Go to Settings , then System and performance, and click Performance. Scroll to “Always keep these sites active,” click Add site, enter the website URL, and click Add. This prevents Edge from putting the site to sleep or slowing it down.
How to Add a Site to Your “Always Active” List
Microsoft Edge allows you to keep specific websites running all the time, even when your computer is trying to save energy, by adding them to an “Always active sites” list in the browser’s settings. This way, your important sites won’t go to sleep when Energy Saver turns on.
- Open Microsoft Edge.
- Click the three dots (
...) in the top-right corner. This opens the menu. - In the menu, click Settings.
- In the Settings tab, click System and performance on the left side.
- Under the “System and performance” section, click Performance. This is where the power-saving and tab settings are.
- Scroll down until you see a section called Always keep these sites active.
- Click the Add site button.
- A small box will appear. Type the full web address (URL) of the site you want to keep active. For example, to keep YouTube active, you would type
https://www.youtube.com. Make sure to includehttp://orhttps://. - After typing the address, click the Add button next to the box.
The site now sits safely on your active list, free from automatic suspension. Microsoft Edge will not put this tab to sleep, even if you don’t use it for a long time. It also won’t be slowed down by Energy Saver mode.
Reference:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/learn-about-performance-features-in-microsoft-edge
Summary
This guide covers how to keep critical websites running in Microsoft Edge while using power-saving features.
How do I always keep these sites active in Edge?
To keep sites active in Edge, open Settings, go to System and performance, then Performance, and under the 'Always keep these sites active' section, click 'Add site' and enter the complete web address (Uniform Resource Locator, or URL) for the site you want to protect.
Why is Microsoft Edge always active?
Microsoft Edge might seem like it's always active because it can keep background extensions and apps running even after you close the browser. You can adjust this behavior in the settings.
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