Opera Denies Microsoft Edge Battery-Saving Claims (thestack.com)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @04:00AM from the we-need-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes: According to the makers of the Opera browser, Microsoft's recent claim that its Windows 10 Edge browser is more power-efficient than Chrome are erroneous. Running its own tests with Opera, Edge and Chrome, the company finds that Opera runs 22% faster (with a battery life of 3hr 55m) than Edge (3hrs 12m). In Microsoft's own tests, Google's Chrome browser was the first to completely exhaust the battery, closely followed by Firefox and Opera. In May, Opera added a power-saving mode, but any advantage it can be verified to have in the energy-efficiency stakes may be more due to the native adblocking feature it introduced this year.

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That's assuming your no1 metric is battery life by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · 2016-06-22 04:04 · Score: 3, Informative

Me, I'd rather sacrifice some runtime so long as I don't use a Microsoft or a Google product.

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