How to Remove Dotted Circle around Chrome Tab Icons or Faded tabs in Edge

I will guide you on this day How to remove the dotted circle around Chrome tab icons or the discolored tabs in Edge

In this post, we will show you how to remove dotted circles around Chrome tab icons or faded tabs in Edge browser on Windows 11/10 computer. While using Chrome browser, you might have seen dotted circles around the favicon of web pages on some background tabs. Similarly, you might have noticed that some background tabs in Microsoft Edge look faded. If you ever wonder why that happens, here is the answer. It is the inactive tab appearance for tabs that you haven't used for some time. This indicates that the tabs have freed up memory or system resources.

How to remove the dotted circle around Chrome tab icons or the discolored tabs in Edge

In this post, we will show you how to remove dotted circles around Chrome tab icons or faded tabs in Edge browser on Windows 11/10 computer. While using Chrome browser, you might have seen dotted circles around the favicon of web pages on some background tabs. Similarly, you might have noticed that some background tabs in Microsoft Edge look faded. If you ever wonder why that happens, here is the answer. It is the inactive tab appearance for tabs that you haven't used for some time. This indicates that the tabs have freed up memory or system resources.

Chrome and Edge browsers have native features called Memory Saver and Save resources with inactive tabs. When you turn on or enable Memory Saver in Chrome and related settings in Edge, the browser frees up memory from inactive tabs or idle tabs and saves system resources to improve performance and provide more resources to active tabs. And if you have enabled or turned on the tab appearance features, you will see dotted circles around the favicons and faded tabs.

If you don’t like this look of your inactive tab, easily disable the related setting. After that, you won’t see any dotted circles around Chrome tab icons or greyed out tabs in the Microsoft Edge browser. The good thing is that that doesn’t affect the Memory Saver and Resource Saver with Inactive Tabs features. You can continue using them, which is good. You can also turn on the appearance of dotted circles and faded tabs whenever you want. So, you have both options. We have covered separate sections for both browsers with step-by-step instructions.

Remove Dotted Circles Around Chrome Tab Icons

 Following are the steps to remove dotted circles around Chrome tab icons on Windows 11/10: 

• Open Chrome browser 
• Type chrome://settings in the Omnibox or address bar and hit the Enter key to open the Settings page. 
• Click on Appearance on the left section.
•  Under the Appearance section, turn off the Inactive Tab Appearance option.

There is no need to restart the browser as it gets applied instantly.

To get dotted circles to appear around Chrome tab icons again, follow the steps above and turn on the Inactive Tab Appearance option.

Related: How do I know which Chrome tab is using the most memory?

Disable display of dimmed tabs in Microsoft Edge

 Follow these steps to disable display of dimmed tabs in Microsoft Edge browser on Windows 11/10 PC: 

• Open Edge browser 
• Press Alt+F to open Settings and more menu
•  Select Settings option On the Settings page 
• Open the System & performance category 
• Turn off the Dim inactive tabs option.

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