Web Browser Tabs (How many is too many?)

Hi All,

I'm new here, but I've had serious problems with W10 for a while and it seems to be related to how many tabs I have open in any web browser. It doesn't seem to matter which one. I've tried Chrome, FF, Edge. Just a few minutes ago Edge was using almost 10GB of RAM and 89% CPU usage, nearly crippling my computer. It said (79) after Microsoft Edge on Task Manager.

How can I avoid this or can I set something to warn me if say more than 50 tabs are open (I keep a lot open).

Thank you.

Impossible to answer as it depends on the contents of each Tab. 50 Tabs open is enormous.
You can try switching off Page Prediction in Edge, and similar functionality in Other Browsers.

Ok, thanks guys! Does the 79 mean I have 79 tabs open or not necessarily? I wonder if there's a warning option somewhere for opening more than say 30 tabs. I can't tell how many I have open as they scroll off the edge.

Falcon73 said:

Ok, thanks guys! Does the 79 mean I have 79 tabs open or not necessarily?

When I open Edge with a new tab page and nothing else there are 9 processes, one of which is the new tab page. Each tab I open for a web page adds one to the total. So the 79 means you have 71 pages open in tabs plus the 8 other Edge processes.

Click the > to the left of 'Microsoft Edge' to expand the list of processes, you'll see the title of the web page as the name of each tab process. Here I have Edge with two tabs open, both on TenForums, one on this thread.

Thanks again. Mostly it's due to me opening articles in my email newspaper or other links of interest to look at later. Most of the time I forget to do so, which leads me to the problem. I suppose just closing Edge totally every day would help, but I don't want to miss out.

How do I get the closed tabs window you highlighted, Callender? I'm pretty new to Edge. I'm trying it as I got so frustrated with FF recently. I don't have the bar on the left and didn't find an icon that looked like it under the 3 dots.