The feature is called Tab Unloading, and weirdly enough they made it not easy to access despite its usefulness.

You basically have to type about:unloads in the address bar and hit enter. If you then click on โ€œUnloadโ€, it will put the least used tabs to sleep. If you keep clicking that button until itโ€™s greyed out, youโ€™ll have unloaded all your tabs from memory.

This feature is handy if you want to temporarily switch to something that is memory hungry without having to close your 100 tabs.

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This, if you want to act on something later, just create a bookmark and set a reminder, act on what you need, then close and move on, donโ€™t clutter your browser and your head.

Usually, i open one window for each task, so i donโ€™t get a lot of unrelated content mixed up and loose focus. I rarely need more than 1~5 tabs.

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