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Opera Adds Power-Saving Mode, Offers 'Up To 50 Percent' Longer Battery Life (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Opera Software has added a power-saving mode to its desktop web browser that "can increase the battery life by as much as 50 percent." The company claims optimizations are what has made the battery life increase possible, including "reducing activity from background tabs, adapting page-redrawing frequency, and tuning video-playback parameters." Opera claimed that a laptop running Windows 10 64-bit with the power-saving feature enabled lasts 49 percent longer than one with Chrome put under equal stress. Ad blocking was turned on during the test as well. The feature is not enabled by default, but a blue battery icon will appear next to the browser's address bar whenever the power cable is unplugged from your computer. When the laptop's battery is running low, the browser will suggest turning on power-saving mode, too. Earlier this week, Opera launched a new VPN app for iOS that is free to use and includes unlimited data.
I didn't read TFA
At this place, this is the assumed default. I've been modded +5 informative already when all what I did was RTFA and answer some question somebody had.
the browser will suggest turning on power-saving mode, too.
A bit late, IMO.
Have gnu, will travel.
all the optimizations in the world.. and yet it was the simple ad blocker, no doubt, that gave 90% of the improvement.
I don't know, Chrome is a real power hog ... if I run my laptop (Asus Zenbook) with no Chrome running, I get about 10 hours battery life, as compared with about 5 hours with Chrome running.
And I can put this funny looking thing on the hood of your car to reduce drag and provide up to 1377% better fuel economy. Up to includes zero. It even includes negative numbers, so if all my elaborate hood ornament does is obstruct your vision and slow the car down, I still haven't made any fraudulent claims.
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
But how about first fixing the proxy server thing so when I'm using it at work I stop getting those annoying pop-ups telling me that auto update can't get through the proxy server. Either add a setting to turn off auto update or make it actually work, I'd be cool with either. Opera mini / mobile also can't handle wifi connections that require a redirect to browser signing, making them pretty much useless. Maybe I should just make my own browser. With blackjack, and hookers.
From 3 years ago. It wants its System-Wide App Nap and Safari Power Saver features back...
version 37 is available for linux, and packaged for a dozen distros. look at your own link again.
I use Pale Moon, except when certain sites don't work unless noscript + flash + Java are required, which defeats the concept of safe browsing ...
From a security perspective you are probably surprisingly safe, as nobody probably bothers to attack the Presto engine anymore. But do all websites render properly?
Apparently an offering by a splinter group from Opera (keeping to the original script) yet not enough to even hint at a constant basis, Opera 12.17 is my still my favorite. https://vivaldi.com/?lang=en_U... I thought at the time it was the latest Opera - was released just after Opera was sold.
Was a true surprise and pleasure to be able to import my Opera bookmarks, I've been collecting them for so long I have quite a list (many broken), always had to export an .adr file for Opera and an HTML to us on other browsers.
Vivaldi has an interesting cookie choice of the questionable (the heck that mean) "Cookie and data exceptions" (Host and or (not sure) Behavior), I was hoping for pre 12.17's deletion of cookies when it's shut down. A single Opera for as many sites as you wish to visit at one time. Vivaldi loaded and logged into /. has 5 Vivaldi.exe's running, ala firefox.
I'm still running the first version I downloaded, haven't used it enough to require it updated.
Vivaldi 1.0.118.19 (Developer Build)
Revision 43f4fbf5070d8e8836b0b95209cdce919fde9520
OS Windows
Blink 537.36 (@2c4eb9b03dda59544bfe6f10f994c66411cf41c7)
JavaScript V8 3.30.33.16
Flash (Disabled)
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.115 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/1.0.118.19
Command Line "C:\Users\tone\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe" --always-authorize-plugins --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end
Executable Path C:\Users\tone\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe
Profile Path C:\Users\tone\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default
Variations ed1d377-e1cc0f14
Chrome is a power-whore. I have one of those Core M machines that sips power and can run about 10 hours on battery if nothing is running really. In this state with the screen down the whole laptop draws about 4-5 watts, but the minute you switch on Chrome 6-8 constant. It's all the phone-homing, syncing, and other stuff that is constantly running in the background that draws the power. Now this is about a 30-50% increase in use so for these types of computers this is a massive test increase in draw. I was measuring this with idle pages as well. You will find chrome is nearly ALWAYS running and doing something even if you sitting a web page that hasn't moved for an hour.
Switch to Lightning
It's a decent suggestion, but you missed the part where I said "laptop" :)
Then why are you using something as impractical as that?