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.
Yep, streaming video on my Surface Pro 3 is literally the only thing I switch from Chrome to Edge for. Edge uses about 1/5 of the CPU that Chrome does for that one purpose. Aside from that, it sucks as an actual web browser.
Memory usage on this thing is TERRIBLE. 7 tabs open, and it's using 1.3 GB of RAM. I have the same 7 tabs open along with 16 more in Chrome, and it's using 1.0 GB of RAM. I never thought I'd see the day when Chrome has better memory usage than Firefox. And that's after disabling every extension on Firefox (which I didn't do on Chrome).
Either way, I've actually started using yahoo in Firefox, and barely notice the difference.
If you're using Yahoo and barely noticing a difference, you should switch it to Bing.
Bing powers Yahoo's search engine, and you get Bing Rewards points which you can redeem for real things. Bing has bought me $5 Starbucks cards at least once a month since I started using the rewards program.
Consider this - the Nokia N95 has a more powerful browser which is fully compatible with the vast majority of flash sites thanks to it being fully supporting flash lite v3. The iPhone (last I checked) still cannot boast such compatibility. And the N95 was released before the iPhone.
Yeah, but that browser kind of sucks in general. The only thing non-game-related that my Wii is way better at doing is surfing the web. I watched South Park earlier using the Wii browser when the PS3 browser couldn't even render the page properly (much less the flash).
Ah, but you forget that hard drive manufacturers don't sell drives using our normal interpretation of sizes (2^10 bytes = 1 kylobyte) but rather the standard method (1000 bytes = 1 kilobyte). Consequently, a 200GB drive is actually 2,000,000,000 bytes.
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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.
Yep, streaming video on my Surface Pro 3 is literally the only thing I switch from Chrome to Edge for. Edge uses about 1/5 of the CPU that Chrome does for that one purpose. Aside from that, it sucks as an actual web browser.
Memory usage on this thing is TERRIBLE. 7 tabs open, and it's using 1.3 GB of RAM. I have the same 7 tabs open along with 16 more in Chrome, and it's using 1.0 GB of RAM. I never thought I'd see the day when Chrome has better memory usage than Firefox. And that's after disabling every extension on Firefox (which I didn't do on Chrome).
Either way, I've actually started using yahoo in Firefox, and barely notice the difference.
If you're using Yahoo and barely noticing a difference, you should switch it to Bing.
Bing powers Yahoo's search engine, and you get Bing Rewards points which you can redeem for real things. Bing has bought me $5 Starbucks cards at least once a month since I started using the rewards program.
Consider this - the Nokia N95 has a more powerful browser which is fully compatible with the vast majority of flash sites thanks to it being fully supporting flash lite v3. The iPhone (last I checked) still cannot boast such compatibility. And the N95 was released before the iPhone.
Yeah, but that browser kind of sucks in general. The only thing non-game-related that my Wii is way better at doing is surfing the web. I watched South Park earlier using the Wii browser when the PS3 browser couldn't even render the page properly (much less the flash).
Ah, but you forget that hard drive manufacturers don't sell drives using our normal interpretation of sizes (2^10 bytes = 1 kylobyte) but rather the standard method (1000 bytes = 1 kilobyte). Consequently, a 200GB drive is actually 2,000,000,000 bytes.