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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.
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.
Nobody believes you, MS. And even if it were true, Edge sucks so fucking bad that I'd rather have a shorter battery life and a decent browser than that worthless piece of shit browser you've produced.
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Didn't we last month some story about MsDev IDE taking one full core to implement the blinking cursor? They probably tuned the code for this specific test.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Since I never use Edge, I guess it'll never use the battery.
So I can now spend 3 hours more using a browser that's unusable.
I kinda fail to see the benefit.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I'm sure the test was perfectly fair and they didn't do anything like ensure Chrome was loading and running flash on a video loop while their own used HTML5 and refused to autoplay. No way Microsoft would be that underhanded.
IANAL but the information that I see contradicts with what I have read at other dozens of reliable sites:
-- Part of this license states that any changes to the kernel are to be made freely available.
Only true if you are going to distribute kernel outside the company. As long as you use within the company, you don't need to make source code available to anyone.
-- any products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to its source code released:
This is simply not true even if you are doing a commercial release, let alone internal usage of compiled code
Ok I'll bite. What makes edge "incomplete"?
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Favours vendor in a shocking twist.
...Didn't they integrate some browser into an earlier version of their operating system at some point in the past, and get sued over it?
I wonder what happens if you integrate a running virtualized piece of software, loaded "into the OS" at all times, to remove the conceptual difference between "normal" and "excessive" power usage...?
Oh, and they just set the "new official industry standard for battery usage measurement"; one you must comply with in order to have their "certification".
Ima shut up now. Ahh, mem'ries.
Yes! By completely fucking off on security, we've extended run time by three full hours!
Too bad it only takes someone 15 seconds to break in and corn-hole your device (by accident) or 5 seconds (if they're actually trying).
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Edge might be better. The problem is that I have so little trust for Microsoft that I would actually trust Google more. That says something. Microsoft spent three decades earning its bad reputation. They can't make it better overnight. Google spent more than a decade earning its great reputation. They can easily destroy it in a relatively short time. Trust is not easily earned, but is easily and permanently lost.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
More to the point, tell a story that isn't a complete fabrication. /. really does need to kill the AC.
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total bullshit.
No MS Troll who's entire career has been spent developing on windoze would know how to or why the kernel should be modified, much less have the chops to do so. Defragging "some stuff"? WTF?
"We were informed by a lawyer...". Bullshit.
Everything by this troll is uninformed marketing drivel. It seems like some shitty essay posted by a marketing droid out of Redmond or some other anti-Libre outfit.
Only I can judge you.
Although Microsoft claims that the three browsers are being tested on "the same Vimeo video" I'm betting that the three browsers are being served different versions of said video. This kind of test is entirely dependant on CODEC selection and video resolution, both of which affect hardware-based decoding and battery efficiency. To be a valid test the browsers should be playing back the same video file from local media.
I trust neither. Google talked a good game but is now just as evil as the rest.
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