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Microsoft Reproduces Google's Battery Life Test To Show Edge Beats Chrome (venturebeat.com)
Earlier this year, Microsoft said that its Edge browser was more power efficient than Google's Chrome, a claim that Google refuted with its own findings. But the debate isn't over. An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft is at it again -- touting Edge as the most battery-efficient browser on Windows 10. The company has rerun its battery tests from the previous quarter using the latest versions of the major browsers, open-sourced its lab test on GitHub, and published the full methodology. But this time, Microsoft says it also replicated one of Google's tests to show that Edge lasts longer than Chrome, Firefox, and Opera.
A test specified, run and controlled by a party with a huge vested interested. And one that has been convicted for criminal behavior twice. Yep, that inspires confidence.
While I share your concern when it comes to Microsoft, the test has been Open Sourced. Please point at the bad part. Explain also why you trust Google.
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Say what you will about M$FT or IE or whatever, but Edge is surprisingly fast and efficient.
I bought a tiny $80 Windows 10 tablet with around 2gb of ram and a minuscule atom processor, and Chrome will choke at just about everything (especially gmail). Edge opens quickly, browses quickly, and utilizes very little memory.
Not shilling for Edge or Microsoft by any means, but for what its worth, they definitely improved their web browser pretty substantially.
Unless your browser supports some kind of adblocking it is going to lose a battery life test.
Isn't the whole thing missing the point?
I mean, really, when's the last time you were concerned about which browser to use because you only had 6 hours of battery left if you used Chrome to surf, instead of 7 if you used Edge?
Um, no. In previous Chrome builds (<53) it would spin laptop fans endlessly even when nothing was going on and use at least 50% CPU, at close to max freq. Battery life was significantly worsened just by having Chrome open. So when was the last time I was concerned about battery life due to which browser? A couple of months ago it was a real problem. Now they're close enough that Chrome is usable, because it's so much better as a browser and only a little worse on the battery.
Microsoft has done the same since IE 8. FireFox is the only "major" browser that considered threaded browsing too difficult to implement.
According to HTML5 Test we see the following...
Edge 14 460
Chrome 52 492
FireFox 48 461
Safari 9.1 370
I guess Edge is getting there. It is on Par with FireFox and beats safari... However chrome has a strong lead.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
>They involve lots of resource loading, WebGL rendering, HTML5 canvas rendering, etc
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