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IE8 Beats Other Browsers In Laptop Battery Life

Posted by timothy on from the not-without-windows-it-doesn't dept.

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.'"

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  1. The real conclusion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Flash is a pig, no matter what browser you use.

    1. Re:The real conclusion by AndreR · · Score: 5, Insightful

      But the thing is, IE processing pages with ads and flash was *more* efficient and less demanding on the CPU than Firefox processing pages with no ads at all.

      That comes to me as quite a shock, given that Flash is, in fact, a pig.

    2. Re:The real conclusion by bhtooefr · · Score: 5, Interesting

      And that is why IE8 has the best battery life - the IE version of the Flash player is hardware accelerated.

  2. Yeah right by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's all about wget on single user mode.

  3. 2% difference... big deal. by Joce640k · · Score: 5, Informative

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

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  4. New IE8 Commercial by goldmaneye · · Score: 5, Funny

    4:00 AM: Intrepid counter-terrorism agent Jack Bauer, gun drawn, kicks open the door to a small flat in a run-down apartment building. The nefarious Evil-Doer turns to face the door, clearly shocked.

    Evil-Doer (played by Jerry Seinfeld): Agent Jack Bauer! How can this be? That laptop had three, maybe four minutes of battery life left on it, at most! How could you possibly have downloaded those files in time?!
    Jack Bauer: Simple.

    Bauer turns to face the camera, which quickly zooms in on his face.

    Jack Bauer: I used Internet Explorer 8.

    A giant explosion rocks the screen, and a huge Internet Explorer logo appears.

    Announcer: Internet Explorer 8. Because on the Internet, seconds matter.

  5. Re:So in theory by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Every single one of these articles instantly devolves into a thread about AdBlock. Yes, we get it. A lot of people here like AdBlock. Can we stop fucking posting the same fucking thread in every fucking single fucking article? Christ.

    It's like Ron Paul in the politics tab during the election.

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