Google Chrome Bests Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Opera In Independent Battery Life Tests (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:00AM from the getting-to-the-bottom-of-things dept.

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.

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It's good news by viperidaenz · 2017-06-26 09:12 · Score: 3, Funny

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!