The RAM slider in Edge Canary doesn't allow that to get out of control and, perhaps most importantly, will let users know when they have too many open tabs that are wasting precious system resources.

Low use of memory and browsers don’t go along together. At least, when you think about Chrome, it’s hard to say that you will be left with a decent amount of RAM while using the browser.

Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Edge are popular web browsers that have different RAM consumption rates. Chrome is a memory hog that runs each tab in a separate process, resulting in ...

The graphics acceleration feature on Edge browser uses GPU when there is a need and lets other programs on your PC use CPU and perform well. Sometimes, it may cause high memory usage issues.

Microsoft's Canary Channel for Edge revealed a new feature under testing for the Edge browser, and as revealed by Leopeva64 on X, a user-controlled RAM limiter may arrive in the future.

Known as ‘Resource controls’ this means that if you have, say, 8GB of RAM on your laptop, and you don’t ever want Edge using more than half of that, you could set a limit of 4GB.

This feature lets users set limits on the browser's RAM usage. Users can now limit Edge's RAM consumption between 1GB and 32GB, with an option for "No set limit." ...

Old-school user-controlled memory management is back, baby! Or at least it's a feature Microsoft is testing in the newest builds of its Chromium-based Edge browser (via The Verge). User Leopeva64 ...