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Open all tabs from previous session but load only last used one
I'm used to work with a lot of tabs organized in several groups and I don't want to lose such tabs when I close and then reopen Edge. This is achievable through settings and I've no complains over it.
However, when I open Edge, I expect only the last used tab to load, or at most the tabs from the last group I was using. It is absurd that all the 50+ tabs, splitted in 10+ groups, are loaded all at once, making the startup process very slow.
I come from Firefox, where all the tabs from the previous session appears, but only the last used one actually loads. The other ones are loaded only once the user browse on them.
The very existence of groups assumes an user is expected to keep a lot of tabs open but to work only with a very small subset of them at a given time. So it's absurd to waste resources, increase power consumption and reduce startup performances by loading all the tabs from the last session, even if most of them will probably not be used.
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I add that the problem is easily reproduced by starting Edge and, once it has loaded, opening a different Edge Workspace. All of the tabs of the second workspace will be loaded immediately.
It used to be that way but with a recent update it changed so all of them are loaded... I have no idea why.
It also used to put tabs in closed groups to sleep much faster and switch to a different tab when you closed a group where you were looking at a tab.
All these recent changes are making Edge worse and worse unfortunately.
