Microsoft Reproduces Google's Battery Life Test To Show Edge Beats Chrome (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday September 15, 2016 @05:25AM from the ego-boost dept.

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.

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Edge by dontbemad · 2016-09-15 05:33 · Score: 5, Informative

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.