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Chrome For Windows To Get Battery Performance Boost (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the less-battery-extensive dept.

Earlier this year, Microsoft claimed that its Edge browser was much lighter on battery than Chrome. Google is now attempting to address that. It has announced that Chrome 53 will contain numerous CPU and GPU power consumption enhancements for video playback, along with other big performance and power improvements. ZDNet adds: Google hasn't as yet published any test results to back up these claims, and I'm not expecting that Chrome will have closed the gap with Edge in one leap, but it's good that Google is addressing these issues. Along with battery life improvements, Google has made what it calls "material design" changes to Chrome, in the form of tweaking the user interface.

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  1. So it was worse? by Carewolf · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Didn't Google claim Microsoft was wrong and Edge was not better than Chrome, and now they have closed the gap?

    Lovely mismatch of messages from PR and from actual engineers.