IE8 Beats Other Browsers In Laptop Battery Life

WARM3CH writes "AnandTech tested a laptop with an AMD CPU, a laptop with an Intel CPU, and a netbook to compare battery life while running Internet Explorer 8, Opera 10, Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, and Chrome. They tested on simple web pages and flash-infested ones. IE8 had the best battery life on both laptops (followed by FF + AdBlock), and Safari had the worst battery life. On the netbook, Chrome was slightly ahead of IE8. The report concludes: 'Overall, Internet Explorer and Firefox + AdBlock consistently place near the top, with Chrome following closely behind. Opera 10 Beta 3 didn't do as well as Opera 9.6.4, and in a couple quick tests, it doesn't appear that the final release of Opera 10 changes the situation at all. Opera in general — version 9 or 10 — looks like it doesn't do as well as the other major browsers. Safari is at the back, by a large margin, on all three test notebooks. We suspect that Safari 4 does better under OS X, however, so the poor Windows result probably won't matter to most Safari users.'"

Comments

2% difference... big deal.

[Joce640k]

The difference is within background noise - as are all these stupid tests.

It seems the article also tested a netbook

[joeflies]

The summary would lead you to believe that they only tested two laptops. However, they also tested a netbook and in this case, "chome 2" (their spelling, not mine), won. Why didn't the submitter didn't mention this test where IE8 didn't win?

Re:It seems the article also tested a netbook

[Anonymous Coward]

The summary does mention it. Read it again.

Re:So in theory

[EvilIdler]

If your Safari doesn't have AdBlock, install it: http://burgersoftware.com/en/safariadblock
(32-bit for now...source available)

I also recommend ClickToFlash: http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/

Re:No Suprise

[wampus]

Your information is 4 years out of date. Explorer and IExplore are completely separate components.

Re:So in theory

[Runaway1956]

Spoiled by speed. That is really funny.

When dial up internet finally became available in my area, pages loaded fairly quickly. Sometimes, I had to wait for a page, but overall, pages loaded fairly quickly. As time went on, and Flash and Java became more and more embedded in pages, my browser slowed more and more. Javascript slowed it even more. The browser itself became ever larger, both in code size and memory requirements. Near the end of my dial up experience, browsing was definitely painful. Even with Adblock, HOSTS, and other optimizations, pages would often take 15, 20, 30 seconds to load. That is NOT "browsing".

I've had ADSL for 25 months now. Pages still don't just snap up, like they do at the community college, where they have a sizeable pipeline. My latency blows, and my real speed is only about 80% of the advertised 384/128. Spoiled? I'm sure there are a lot of spoiled people out there enjoying connections that never lag, and downloading the biggest movies in an hour or less. I assure you, I'm not one of them.