Microsoft Edge is built on the same engine as Chrome, so it can run extensions from the Chrome Web Store. If Edge is your browser at work, you don't need to switch to use Windows Mouse Mover.
Installing from the Chrome Web Store in Edge
- Open the Windows Mouse Mover page on the Chrome Web Store in Edge.
- Edge shows a banner offering to Allow extensions from other stores. Click Allow, then confirm.
- Click Add to Chrome. It installs into Edge, despite the label.
- Pin it from the puzzle-piece Extensions menu so the popup is one click away.
Sign in with the same account you use in Chrome; your subscription works in both.
What sleeping tabs do
Edge puts tabs you haven't used for a while to sleep to save memory and battery. A sleeping tab looks faded in the tab strip. Its page is paused, so timers stop, live updates stop arriving, and some apps reload when you return.
That's usually welcome. It's less welcome for the dashboard you're watching from the corner of your eye, or a web tool in the middle of a job.
Keep important sites awake
- Go to Settings > System and performance.
- Under Optimize performance, find Save resources with sleeping tabs.
- Choose how long a tab must be inactive before it sleeps.
- Under Never put these sites to sleep, click Add and enter the sites you rely on.
You can turn sleeping tabs off entirely on the same page, but the never-sleep list is the better option: the tabs that matter stay live, and everything else still saves memory.
Efficiency mode
Edge's efficiency mode, also under System and performance, can make tabs sleep sooner when you're on battery. If tabs seem to sleep faster on battery than when plugged in, that's why.
With your important sites on the never-sleep list, Windows Mouse Mover can do its part: keep those pages seeing activity and keep your screen awake while you're away from the keyboard.