ForceForegroundPriorityForOrigins

Force foreground priority for specific origins

Supported versions

  • Windows: ≥ 149
  • macOS: ≥ 149
  • Android: Not supported
  • iOS: Not supported

Description

This policy allows you to specify a list of URL patterns for which background web content is forced to run at foreground priority.

If the ForceForegroundPriorityForAllTabs policy is enabled, this policy is ignored because all tabs are already forced to run at foreground priority.

If the ForceForegroundPriorityForAllTabs policy is disabled or not configured, only background content that matches the URL patterns in this list is forced to run at foreground priority.

This policy matches URLs based on origin only. Any path or query parameters in the pattern are ignored. Supported components include scheme, host, and port.

For more information about valid URL patterns, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2095322.

If you don’t configure this policy or the list is empty, no background content is forced to run at foreground priority.

Supported features

  • Can be mandatory: Yes
  • Can be recommended: No
  • Dynamic Policy Refresh: Yes
  • Per Profile: Yes
  • Applies to a profile that is signed in with a Microsoft account: No

Data type

  • List of strings

Windows information and settings

Group Policy (ADMX) info

  • GP unique name: ForceForegroundPriorityForOrigins
  • GP name: Force foreground priority for specific origins
  • GP path (Mandatory): Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge
  • GP path (Recommended): N/A
  • GP ADMX file name: MSEdge.admx

Example value

https://www.example.com

[*.]example.edu

https://example.com:8080

*://example.org:*/

Registry settings

  • Path (Mandatory): SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\ForceForegroundPriorityForOrigins
  • Path (Recommended): N/A
  • Value name: 1, 2, 3, ...
  • Value type: List of REG_SZ

Example registry value

SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\ForceForegroundPriorityForOrigins\1 =

https://www.example.com

SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\ForceForegroundPriorityForOrigins\2 =

[*.]example.edu

SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\ForceForegroundPriorityForOrigins\3 =

https://example.com:8080

SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\ForceForegroundPriorityForOrigins\4 =

*://example.org:*/

Mac information and settings

  • Preference Key name: ForceForegroundPriorityForOrigins
  • Example value:
<array>
  <string>https://www.example.com</string>
  <string>[*.]example.edu</string>
  <string>https://example.com:8080</string>
  <string>*://example.org:*/</string>
</array>

See also

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