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Google Uses Surface Books To Show Off Chrome Battery Improvements (windowscentral.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Windows Central: Google has posted a new video showing how much it has improved battery life while using Chrome on Windows. It demonstrated those changes in a video that featured the web browser on Microsoft's Surface Book notebooks. The video test was based on running a Vimeo video on Chrome 46, which was released in 2015, and the same video running on Chrome 53, which was released last week. The Surface Book with Chrome 46 ran out of battery power after 8 hours and 27 minutes, while the same notebook running Chrome 53 shut down in 10 hours and 39 minutes, or over 2 hours later. Chrome 53 also features Material Design, a user interface that "makes more liberal use of grid-based layouts, responsive animations and transitions, padding, and depth effects such as lighting and shadows." You can force the update to Chrome 53 by navigating to the about section of Chrome.
Chrome is a pile of shit. Google needs to go back to what they do best, spying on you and customizing your advertisement experience... such as running Ashley Madison ads on the screen every time your wife walks in the room.
Microsoft sounded incredibly daft when they bragged about how the one thing about Edge that doesn't suck is its low battery usage. Then of course their monopolistic tendencies came out (again) when they decided to show a warning message to Windows 10 users who opened Firefox or Chrome by telling them that those browsers will use all your battery life and you'd better use Edge if you knew what was good for you.
So this whole "browser battery life" war is nothing but an excuse for Microsoft's "DOS isn't done 'til Lotus won't run" tactic. This should be responded to with antitrust investigations and legal fines.
Instead Google is playing along and trying to show how great Chrome is on Windows 10's battery life. This is a losing war, Google. You're fighting a winter war against Russia here. Nobody uses Edge because they legitimately are concerned about their laptop battery life.
Now fix the fact that Chrome doesnt trigger the on-screen keyboard in tablet mode when you tap into an input box - this has been broken for several major versions now, after being "fixed" for a few versions after the last time they broke it.
It's been a week and they still don't have a v53 full MSI installer available. They managed to post the OS X DMG!
"You'll notice that tabs, iconography, navigation, and the general UI all feels a lot flatter."
Is that supposed to be a good thing? "a lot flatter." Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.
Flat design is bad design, period.
www.flatisbad.com
If they keep puffing up then flattening out the icons they are going to lose their elasticity.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
Soooo ...
M$ finally takes precedence IE's code base is crap an utterly unmaintainable. They switch to Edge. They create a first version to try out things and fish out bugs... and now they are ready for the offensive against The Goog.
M$ says Chrome is slower than Edge. Post proof Edge is faster and eats up less battery than Chrome.
The Goog says Chrome is faster than Previous Chrome. Post proof Newer Chrome gives 20% more battery than Older Chrome.
While they are doing that, they are changing the user interface, killing features developers use, destoy projects such as https everywhere and cause all the same headaches than devs had while migrating from IE to Edge, but in some incremental update.
And it still proves nothing ... all that for a point they still cannot make. That smells hot soup!
You want to improve performance and reduce network usage? M$, The Goog, stop getting information from the users, and start actually pushing minimalistic versions, without spies, ads or marketing crap. In the meantimes, I'll eat popcorn and look at your cock combat with laughable interests.