Edge will manage the screen refresh rate to improve navigation and battery

If you have a compatible computer, you will be able to take advantage of this interesting feature that Microsoft is testing and that will improve your browsing experience.

Surely you have already read the concept of refresh rate many times, especially in relation to smartphones, and yet Windows can already increase the screen refresh rate by using Windows’ variable refresh rate function. 10 and Windows 11 dynamic refresh rate.

But now Microsoft is working, for the Edge browser, in support for this technology, and basically what they intend to do is that the browser, depending on your use, increase or decrease the refresh rate not only when scrolling the screen, but also according to the type of application that we have executed.

In this way, the update frequency will be lower when we read an email or higher when we are running an application.

Thanks to this new functionality that you can activate in the options and that is now available in the Edge beta channel, we will gain two positive aspects: a better navigation and on the other hand a considerable saving of the battery of our laptop.

Unfortunately, not all users will be able to take advantage of this feature, since it is only compatible with those screens or panels with VRR and that have suitable drivers for it.

Most recently released laptops support this feature, but if you have a laptop purchased several years ago you may not be able to take advantage of it.

To know if your laptop is compatible you must go to configuration, then select system, screen and advanced screen. If you enter the advanced screen and you can choose a refresh rate in “dynamic” it is compatible.