Chrome in general drains my phone's battery too much

ZodaEX

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I thought i'd post here and ask for some advice about this issue from others here. In general, the Google Chrome web browser drains my phones's battery down quite quickly when I just do general web browsing. Some web pages drain the battery dramatically faster than others, like hardforum doesn't at all. I can browse this forum all day with very little impact to batter life, while other websites like the dragon ball wikia, or one of the discussions boards on gamefaqs.com drains my battery super fast. What do you recommend to reduce this issue? I used to use Firefox + a plugin for it called javascript and port blocker, which seemed to do the trick pretty well, but the plugin hasn't been updated in ages and it had an annoying tendency to stop working randomly sometimes. Any ideas?
 
I figured out a good solution. Chrome is just a very heavy app by it's nature so I install a new web browser called "Via" and now my phone's battery lasts over 4 times as long.
 
I switched to Firefox for this same reason. Chrome was just a battery killer.
 
Ehh? I find Chrome to be the most battery friendly browser. Firefox definitely doesn't do better in that regard. Edge is probably close to Chrome (though, it has built in Adblock Plus so that could help).
 
Samsung's browser works best for me. Very quick and looks great in its dark mode.
 
Ehh? I find Chrome to be the most battery friendly browser. Firefox definitely doesn't do better in that regard. Edge is probably close to Chrome (though, it has built in Adblock Plus so that could help).

Most battery friendly out of which ones? Be specific please because your post has no value with zero specifics.
 
Most battery friendly out of which ones? Be specific please because your post has no value with zero specifics.
I did mean all that do not use server side rendering. I haven't tested Samsung's browser though.
 
I observe the same thing with Chrome. I use Opera for ages and it's the best for me and while minimized it doesn't use battery at all. Chrome when used is constantly in the list of the biggest battery offenders. Sometimes I have to use it because some webpages are just optimized and work at all in it (or some of their functions). But I everytime don't forget to force close Chrome after I do my work (by long tapping on Back button, which forces close the current app). When force closed chrome is closed totally and not offending battery. It's also the most crap browser there is on earth. Totally unhandy to use. Cannot believe company as Google made such crap. Not that any of their softwares isn't crap... just some of their services are good (Gmail, maps, search..).
So on the phone I have to keep at least two browsers. I do the same on desktop where my main browser is FF but keep Chrome because some sites just don't work well with FF but much less of a problem than on the phone.
 
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