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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.
SUPPOSEDLY, this one is supposed to be web standards compliant. I'll believe that when I have to start supporting it and I don't have to fiddle with css to get it to look right.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
I say "bravo!" for the Chrome team. Their results are significantly better than the prior test.
in the last test, Edge lasted 70% longer than Chrome. see https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
in this test, four months later, the laptop with Edge lasted only 11% longer than Chrome. If I were the Edge team, I'd be watching my back and not crowing so loudly.
Note that they only tested on Windows 10, because Edge only runs on Windows 10.
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
* those who can't
Our dev team recently spent an entire iteration enhancing the performance of our online products. They involve lots of resource loading, WebGL rendering, HTML5 canvas rendering, etc. Our benchmarks showed Edge was far and away the best performer of our supported browsers (Chrome, IE, Edge, Firefox, OSX Safari), particularly when it came to loading time. We develop using Chrome and only do compatibility testing on Edge, but all the times I've used it I was impressed.
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