Microsoft Edge Beats Chrome By Over Three Hours In New Battery Usage Test (bleepingcomputer.com)

An anonymous reader writes: With the launch of the Windows 10 Creators Update and Edge 40 (EdgeHTML 15), Microsoft has released a new battery usage test that, naturally, trashes the company's competition. This new test shows that Edge uses less power than both Chrome 57 and Firefox 52, and is bound to draw a response from its competition, especially Google, who doesn't like it when Microsoft takes a jab at Chrome's efficiency. The same thing happened last year, in June, when a similar test showcasing Edge's longer battery life was met with responses from both Google and Opera.

The most recent tests were performed for the launch of Windows 10 Creators Update. Two tests were carried out until a laptop's battery gave out. For each browser, a minimum of 16 iterations were recorded per test. The first test measured normal browsing performance and the second ran a looped Vimeo fullscreen video. In the normal browsing performance test, Microsoft claims Edge used 31% less power than Chrome 57, and 44% less power than Firefox 52. In the second test, Edge played a looped Vimeo video in fullscreen for 751 minutes (12:31:08), while Chrome lasted 557 minutes (9:17:03) and Firefox for only 424 minutes (7:04:19). That's a whopping three hours over Chrome, and five hours above Firefox.

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Re: Nobody

[ausekilis]

Because these facts ignore other problems that Edge has. I've experienced slowdown, improper coloring, improper page layout (to the point of unusable) and a handful of other strange behaviors on a regular basis. I switched to Chrome because it just plain works.

So you can save battery life, but at what other costs? I'd rather get crap done than reload a page 100 times or wait 2 minutes for it to render.

Re: Nobody

[MightyMartian]

The statistics speak for themselves:

https://www.w3counter.com/glob...

In fact, to even make Edge look like it is even in the race, they combine Edge and IE 11 under the same statistic, but considering that IE11 is the third most used browser at a meager 3.49% based on browser/version, I'm guessing Edge is below Firefox in usage.

So you can call me a fanboy if you like, but the fact is that it's very clear very few people are using Edge at all, even with Microsoft's increasingly overt attempts to make switching default browsers difficult.