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

Posted by msmash on from the browser-war-lives dept.

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.

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  1. Don't Care by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  2. Microsoft cheats when it comes to Edge performance by acroyear · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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  3. "Up to" by Solandri · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "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".