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Google Chrome Bests Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Opera In Independent Battery Life Tests (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: YouTuber Linus Tech Tips has pitted Microsoft Edge against Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera and discovered that it does not deliver as strong a performance as Microsoft claims. Linus Tech Tips took four Dell Inspiron laptops, with the same specs, and found that Microsoft Edge trails Chrome and Opera in battery life tests. It would seem that it still beats Firefox, after all. However, the results are much, much closer than what Microsoft's own tests indicate. On average, the difference between Chrome, which offers the best battery life, and Microsoft Edge is under 40 minutes. Opera comes closer to Microsoft Edge than Chrome in this test. Even Creators Update, which based on Microsoft's test should help Microsoft Edge obliterate the competition, didn't help make it faster than Chrome. Linus says he used the same methodology that Microsoft used in its set of battery tests earlier this year, in which it declared Edge as the winner.
What else is new. In particular, about everything MS praises in Windows is either bogus or actually a disadvantage.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
How many times has Microsoft made false claims about it's browser, all their IE/Edge press BS originates from contrived statistics or benchmarks. You can never trust them and they will never change.
Safari beats Edge on the latest versions of macOS.
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Just link to the actual source. I'm so tired of this hellhole of journalism called betanews. All they do is steal content and shower you with ads
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So did the reviewer, upon completing the first round with the four machines, then rotate the software under-test across the machines, rerun, rotate again, rerun, etc?
What were the parameters of the test? Was this some kind of scripting that compelled the browser to pull content without user interaction? How was that achieved, and could extra usage from that software have skewed results? What content was pulled-down? Were different kinds of content, reflecting different kinds of users/usage pulled-down?
I ask all of this because it affects the results. A single browser on a single laptop is a sample size of one. If the testing involved four out-of-the-box laptops with new batteries an dfour browsers, then one has a single data point for each browser. More testing is probably necessary to establish real results instead of just generating fanboy arguments.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
What was the test methology? Did they use Google-controlled sites on tests? The G+ for example eats constantly 100% of CPU on my Linux&Firefox combo, which might not be happening on Chrome. What if the browsers changed their user agent string, would the results differ? Or does the Google just service different, non-flash-ads for its own browser? There really should not be any measurable efficiency difference between the major browsers.
Er...keep performing your little laptop tests, but most web browsing seems to happen on phones these days.
google chrome bests microsoft edge in new battery life tests
by mihi bamburicpublished 50 minutes ago
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ask microsoft which browser offers the best battery life on windows 10 and it will not hesitate to tell you that microsoft edge is the best and it has the test results to prove it: on a surface book for instance microsoft edge lasts a couple of hours longer than google chrome and mozilla firefox which is remarkable
but and there is a but an independent test disputes microsofts claim youtuber linus tech tips has pitted microsoft edge against google chrome mozilla firefox and opera and discovered that it does not deliver as strong a performance as microsoft claims
linus tech tips took four dell inspiron laptops with the same specs and found that microsoft edge trails chrome and opera in battery life tests it would seem that it still beats firefox after all however the results are much much closer than what microsofts own tests indicate
on average the difference between chrome which offers the best battery life and microsoft edge is under 40 minutes opera comes closer to microsoft edge than chrome in this test even creators update which based on microsofts test should help microsoft edge obliterate the competition didnt help make it faster than chrome
what is more interesting is that using microsofts own methodology linus tech tips has found that chrome is still the faster browser in that test it shares first place with firefox with microsoft edge coming second and opera third
you may wonder why this test involved four identical inspiron machines and the reason is simple: to test consistency you may think that the results should be the same but there are some variations between the machines in terms of battery life so each browser was tested on each machine to account for this with the final rankings being listed above
the video posted by linus tech tips goes into more detail so watch it below if you want more information
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order_66 27 minutes ago
why shouldnt we believe microsoft they wouldnt deliberately lie about their own products would they especially the ones that are failing against the competition
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guruland1000 28 minutes ago
what ever
Can someone just post a table of the results they got. Not watching a stupid video for information I could absorb in 15 seconds from text.
MS Edge cannot even delete cookies one by one.
Since we are stuck using it for many of our systems, it would be helpful to know how it rates.
i've known chromium is the best for quite some time
...is open source Edge.
Microsoft, you must abandon hope that you will regain any market share with a closed source browser locked to Windows 10. It will never, never happen.
When independent ports of Edge emerge on OSX, Ubuntu, Dragonfly, and Haiku, then perhaps there will be hope - and not one day before.
Tell me why I need Windows 10 again?
http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/efficient-music-players-remain-elusive
tossing an ad blocker and script blocker into the browsers, and then testing? no sane person is going to ride the net bareback.
oh, what's that you say? you can't do that for ie or edge? and opera and chrome just have a few half-assed attempts at cloning noscript and countless scams?
we have a winner. her name is firefox.
A job done wrong wastes the energy. A job done right uses the energy.
It's a web browser. It gives me access to the world wide web. Security and privacy are far, far more important than battery life. Chrome is made by Google, which is an absolute no-go when it comes to privacy. So, thanks, but no Chrome for me.
It doesn't have to be like this. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
Apple does not allow browsers on that platform that do anything other than wrap Webview.
A family member's machine was "running slow" so I setup Firefox and configured it not to use disk cache at all.
She has broadband internet and does not go near her monthly limit and frankly I think the network request can serve the content up faster than the laptop hard drive.
Google Chrome and other browsers lack the feature to really minimize disk writes by eliminating disk cache.
RAM is cheap and she generally just puts the thing in standby, meaning sites are still cached in RAM if their cache metadata hasn't expired them.
I'll bet it would beat all of the tested configurations hands down for battery life (energy efficiency and battery lifetime) as well as storage device (HDD, etc.) lifetime.
Disk cache doesn't make sense, so if Firefox is the only browser that TRULY does not write to disk, then reward them for their forward thinking if their browser has configuration settings that can tilt the axis of the test.
There are some coders at Microsoft who are the very best in the business. If Microsoft releases their code for practical applications, why would we discriminate against it merely for the name of the originator?
Before Dave Cutler designed the kernel for Windows NT, he had previously lead the VAX VMS kernel design team. He produces tight and beautiful code, and ignoring any open-source practical contributions from him would be quite foolish.
That said, it's unlikely that Cutler has anything to do with Win10, and it shows.
When I say she puts it in standby, I mean with Firefox still open.
The pages she was on may expire, but the unexpired content cache data remains in RAM since the Firefox process does not shut down.
Watch the video
How would I Ctrl+F a video or watch it on a severely slow and/or capped Internet connection? And how would I watch without audio on my computer or with a hearing disability? Its captions have errors, such as a complete lack of punctuation and goofs like "until seventh generation core i7" when "Intel" was meant, due to having been automatically generated. Pending answers to these, I prefer text over video.
I would, but Firefox's "Find in page" (Ctrl+F) in a YouTube video page searches only the comments, not the video captions. What am I missing?
Just a feeling, but I suspect HTML 2.0 would have lapped the field, and then gone out for an late-night pub crawl, returning home at the cock of dawn to romp nekid until the sun crosses over the yard arm with an insatiable beer-goggles Wonder Bra, and still find enough energy in the tank to chew off his arm a few hours later.
Opera Mini renders HTML documents remotely in order to work around the Apple WebKit restriction. In addition, different wrappers for Apple WebKit can have different battery life characteristics, though I imagine the difference is negligible. Among Opera Mini rendering remotely, Safari wrapping Apple WebKit, Chrome wrapping Apple WebKit, and Firefox wrapping Apple WebKit, which of the four can browse for the longest on a single charge?
RAM is cheap
Unless you've already installed the largest RAM modules that your PC will take. I've seen new PCs for sale with no option to reconfigure for more RAM. For example, this product detail page for an Inspiron 11 3000 laptop mentions "2GB" but doesn't offer any choice to upgrade at build time nor state what sort of RAM slot it has.
...if you are a kernel or systems contributor to a major platform.
As I remember, there were compromises in the kernel architecture that were evoked deep "regret" in the commentary.
Apple allows only one browser engine on iOS and that engine is Webkit.
The other option is remote rendering, as used by Opera Mini. Microsoft could likewise run EdgeHTML in its huge Azure cloud and send the result of remote rendering to iOS devices.
The upshot is, Microsoft, once again, has been caught lying. Which is, of course, not news. Consider yourself middle-fingered, Microsoft.
The real question that we should be asking is what version of FireFox did he use? v54 just debuted with better RAM management, wouldn't that directly translate to improved battery life?
You know, it's very hard to test this under Windows. Because, you may be running IE/Edge alone. But you're never running Chrome or Firefox alone. You're just running Chrome + IE/Edge (in the background). And it's still draining your battery.
Windows has recently stopped reminding me that switching to Edge will gain me 2 hours battery life, despite my laptop being plugged in 95% of the time.
They're now telling me constantly that I need to adjust my screen brightness settings to save my battery, despite being plugged in to an external monitor with no backlight adjustment capability and hence no control to change it in the settings this "helpful" tip takes me to.
Go Windows 10!
These tests are measuring battery life/consumption for video playback. The actual browser used is largely irrelevant to the test. It's all about CODECs, video drivers and hardware acceleration. The different browsers are not given the exact same video streams, they get served streams with different encodings. Different CODECs may or may not use hardware acceleration and the efficiency of hardware accelerated decodes is different depending on the algorithm.
This is really fuck'n hillarious--do most people even give a fuck about the relative battery life for a laptop?
I use laptops and they're plugged in at least 90% of the time, if you're that far away from someplace to plug in, for that long, you're probably going to be doing something other than surfing the internet as your primary activity.
Does anyone know if Opera was used in battery saver mode?
Duck battery, I need a browser who actually works, and Chrome is NOT one that work with all types of websites. Frequently I have to launch Firefox for that and always keep it installed when using Chrome. That's why, up to today, I never totally migrated into Chrome. I still use Chrome when youtubing because of the extensions, and that is the only reason. At work I never use Chrome.