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

Posted by msmash on 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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  1. Manufacturers lie about their products... by gweihir · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What else is new. In particular, about everything MS praises in Windows is either bogus or actually a disadvantage.

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  2. Testing methodology by TWX · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  3. Irrelevant by Aethedor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:Irrelevant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      Then come straight out with it then. Instead of pussying around, slamming Chrome in an Edge vs. everything else article implicitly supporting Edge and by extension the malware OS it runs on, tell us what you use. Otherwise you're just trolling.