Windows 10's Edge vs Chrome: We're Faster and Win in Battery Face-off, Says Microsoft (zdnet.com)

Microsoft has kicked off 2018 with two new ads promoting Windows 10 Edge's battery efficiency and speed compared with Google Chrome. From a report: Microsoft published the two new ads on New Year's Eve, pitting Edge against Chrome, the world's most popular browser. "Microsoft Edge is up to 48 percent faster than Google Chrome," Microsoft says in one of the 30-second ads. Not only that, but Microsoft argues that Edge is safer too, thanks to SmartScreen, its built-in equivalent of Google's Safe Browsing anti-phishing technology. Microsoft says: "Edge blocks 18 percent more phishing sites than Google Chrome." Microsoft doesn't cite the source of this statistic, but in October, NSS Labs released a report comparing Edge on the locked-down Windows 10 S with Chrome on Chromebooks, suggesting that Edge blocks more phishing URLs than Chrome.

Comments

Don't Care

[MightyMartian]

Edge is still such a piece of crap, the UI so amateurish, that I'd gladly sacrifice a bit of battery life to use Chrome. So far as I'm concerned, Microsoft has lost the browser wars.

Re:Don't Care

[rogoshen1]

right? the nagging that occasionally pops up when running chrome is the nail in the coffin. So incredibly annoying when MS tries to nudge you into using their bullshit apps that are baked into the OS. Cortana, Skydrive, Edge.. Fuck off. If i had any desire to use these add-ons, I would.

I abhor ads, especially when it's either impossible to disable/remove, or a convoluted regediting process. I bought the computer, I should get to choose what programs or features I use.

It's not terrible...

[rwven]

Edge is OK. Where I think it lacks, in the same way that the latest Firefox lacks, is in its integration support, mobile features, and plugins.

I use Google services a lot, and the fact that Chrome has native sign-in to Google, makes the integration really clean. Also the plugins on Chrome tend to be a lot more mature and stable than those for the "lesser" browsers. That's less of an issue with FF, but it's still present.

Edge IS quite fast, and does a good job with proper page rendering.

I think the problem is that Chrome is just a great browser. It doesn't matter if Edge is "just as great," or even "a little greater in this one area." A ton of people are embedded with Chrome now, and unless there's a REAL incentive to change, why would they?

Again with the browser speed...

[QuietLagoon]

... the quest for speed caused Firefox to dump much of the useful functionality of the browser. Is browser speed really the issue it is made out to be, or is the quest for speed being done just because browser speed is so easy to measure and compare?

Battery claim is for when Edge isn't running

[raymorris]

Last I checked, Microsoft's battery claim is for sitting there watching a video, without the browser actually doing anything at all.

Re:Battery claim is for when Edge isn't running

[Mr.Radar]

They definitely seem to have heavily optimized for the video playback use-case. On my slow (but cheap) Atom-based notebook video playback is noticeably smoother and uses less CPU than Firefox even though Edge is noticeably slower at actual web rendering.

Re:phuck Edge

[Anonymous Coward]

thanks dude we were all worried about you possibly being an ie fan on slashdot cuz most people here dont like it and we want u to fit in
does ur blog have rss feed so i can get timely updates on how bad micro$oft is

Who cares

[DarkRookie]

Edge is still a browser made by MS. Edge, the best browser for downloading other browser in Win 10

Microsoft cheats when it comes to Edge performance

[acroyear]

When Chrome is running, Windows continues to run background processes like system updates.

When Edge is running instead, I noticed the CPU and network usage of those background processes to drop to near 0.

This is the exact same type of b.s. that got them sued by the DOJ 23 years ago.

"Up to"

[Solandri]

"Microsoft Edge is up to 48 percent faster than Google Chrome," Microsoft says in one of the 30-second ads

"Up to" is a useless marketing term when only a single benchmark is given. Edge could be slower than Chrome at everything except one test, and you could still truthfully state that it was "up to 48%" faster than Chrome.

For a one-line statement like that to be meaningful, it has to refer to average speed, or "at least".

Stop grasping at straws!

[King_TJ]

You know what people NEED in a browser? Compatibility with every web site they visit and flexibility to install extensions or plug-ins that make it a more useful tool for them!

Speed is always a good thing, but it's got to be viewed as relative to the capability of the product. Right now, with Edge not supporting extensions or plug-ins, it's not even if the same league as the browsers it compares speeds with.

I don't know anyone using Windows 10 who doesn't view Edge as the lightweight default browser you ignore except for the times Windows wants to open it to render something that was generated by clicking on an option in Windows itself.

If only speed was the primary factor

[Ngarrang]

If speed was the most important factor for choosing software, I would be running Linux instead of Windows 10.