Microsoft Edge Is Still More Power Efficient than Chrome and Firefox

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According to a browser efficiency comparison for Windows 10 version 1809 (which Microsoft posted on GitHub but never advertised), Edge remains the best browser for battery life: measuring the time it took identical Surface Book laptops to run fully through their batteries while streaming HTML5 video in fullscreen, Edge lasted 24% longer than Chrome and 94% longer than Firefox. Despite the browser’s adoption of Chromium, Thurrott believes Edge will retain this strength due to “underlying integration with the operating system.”

In June 2016, Microsoft reported that Edge provided a 47 percent battery life advantage over Google Chrome. By April 2017, that advantage had fallen to 35 percent. And by May 2018, the advantage had fallen to just 14 percent. So I began theorizing that Chrome battery life might surpass that of Edge by the time Windows 10 version 1809 shipped. But that didn’t happen. So one can only wonder why Microsoft didn’t shout these results to the world as they had previously. Perhaps it has to do with the switch to a new browser engine, which sort of undermines any promotion of the old technology.
 
So I wonder how MS will spin this when edge uses chromium
 
So? Edge as it is is dead. They are switching to chromium so this information is not at all relevant anymore.
 
Well I don't know what MS did to edge in 1809 but they seem to have broke it, can't access my providers webmail anymore and CPU usage is pretty high.

Then again the whole networking thing seems bugged as hell too, been having some strange issues since my pc updated some days ago. Latest intel driver did not fix it.
 
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women dont care much but i do.
 
While Edge is clearly a good browser, none of it matters considering how much of MS' own shit doesn't properly work in it. Like... Sharepoint, Microsoft CRM, and others. Like you need IE11 for Microsoft CRM in a lot of cases thanks to Silverlight.

What's the fucking point Microsoft?
 
BloodyIron said:
MS' own shit doesn't properly work in it. Like... Sharepoint, Microsoft CRM, and others. Like you need IE11 for Microsoft CRM in a lot of cases thanks to Silverlight.

What's the fucking point Microsoft?
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Oh, lookie here. Someone uses a computer not to game and watch movies! Who woulda thought?

I agree, Edge was good, but their own imposed limitations were mind boggling.
 
I use edge simply because it blocks auto play of videos. Chrome doesn't. Firefox did but a couple of sites I visit don't work right in firefox.

Google makes some decent stuff, but they usually screw it up. I got Android Auto and it worked great, voice commands for music playback worked perfectly along with everything else. Then they decided to have Google Assistant handle all the voice commands and now they only work about 30% of the time. For safety you can't touch the screen too many times in a row, so when voice commands fail you are extremely limited to what you can do.
 
Uses less power because it uses the GPU for decode and render

Chrome and Firefox have a tendency to use the CPU for decode and sometimes gpu for render (but they do it because tends to be the less buggy way as I do find edge is a little not working on some video sites or get a green frame )
 
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