Edge Beats Chrome in Battery Test, Says Microsoft (zdnet.com) 102
The latest installment of Microsoft's browser battery challenge shows once again that Edge consumes less energy than Chrome and Firefox. From a report: With the Windows 10 April 2018 Update rolling out across the globe, Microsoft thinks it's once again time to square Edge up against Chrome and Firefox in a new battery-life test. Microsoft's browser experiment shows a time-lapse of "three identical devices, three different browsers, streaming one video." Firefox, Edge, and Chrome play what appears to be a Netflix video on three Surface Books. As usual, the Edge device lasts the longest, depleting the battery after 14 hours and 20 minutes. The Chrome device lasted 12 hours and 32 minutes, while the Firefox laptop ran out of steam after just seven hours and 15 minutes.
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Cigarettes are healthy! (Score:5, Funny)
Says Phillip Morris and Altria Group
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In other shocking news, ${COMPANY_X} says ${COMPANY_X}'s product is the best!
Don't care (Score:3, Insightful)
I wouldn't use Edge even if it recharged my batteries! It's a shitty browser, on top of an awful OS.
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Because there's a lot more to a healthy country beyond just an economy.
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Well, you can go and change the application to use for an extension any time by right clicking one file and selecting "Open With..." and specifying to always use that application.
And most windows applications assume control of the extensions that they expect to open. Edge isn't alone in this regard. You can reset it back to your default by right clicking a pdf file and specifying your preferred reader.
That the only thing you identified is more of a failing in installation customization than in the br
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Only if you don't set your default application correctly.
Again, this may be more of a issue of shitty OS than the fault of the browser per se, because if I remember correctly, it is because Windows 10 changed how default application handling worked, so if the handlers are set "incorrectly", they can get reset back to what Windows thinks are the "proper" defaults at a later time, usually upon reboot. Edge uses what Windows 10 thinks is the "right way" to set file extension handling, so that's why after
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Only if you don't set your default application correctly.
I've found that it gets routinely changed back after a round of Windows updates.
IMO this is malicious behaviour on the part of Microsoft, who are doing everything they possibly can to force people to use Edge without outright blocking Chrome and Firefox from launching.
The more Microsoft changes, the more they stay the same. And then they wonder why they are so untrusted.
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How would you like a car where you have to adjust the mirrors, change the position of the seat, and re-inflate the tires every single morning - as a DESIGN FEATURE?
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Poor availability of ad and script blocking for one.
I can't imagine this test was run with Chrome running say... uBlock origin or ScriptSafe. With all the garbage scripts NOT running in the background, I imagine Chrome would fare much better than Edge.
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Edge runs uBlock origin.
Battery Life (Score:2, Informative)
If it takes you 14 hours, 20 minutes to download Chrome or Firefox, you've got bigger problems. Microsoft really needs to work harder on its browser downloader.
Yeah right, "Microsoft Says..." (Score:3, Funny)
"Best browser ever, believe me! So fast it's a blur, like my wonderful hair! All A-plus; the Yuuuge crowd just loves Edge...and my hair. Chrome is for fake losers. #MEGA!"
Infinitely better battery life than Chrome... (Score:4, Funny)
Great research (Score:3)
Wherein browsers are actually simply video players.
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Wherein browsers are actually simply video players.
Well yeah, 75% of internet traffic is video. What do you use for Netflix? The app from the Windows Store? Don't make me laugh. :-)
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For Amazon Prime I use my TV.
75% of internet traffic may be video but that doesn't mean 75% of web use is.
Edge greatly boosts battery life by never being fucking run.
Yeah, the browser decides your battery life (Score:2)
Has anyone checked how long those batteries last with a less bloated OS?
It's somewhat unlikely that the browser is what's going to determine how long your battery lasts. How often do you really ONLY use the browser, with no power hungry plugins, of course, e.g. to render videos.
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Has anyone checked how long those batteries last with a less bloated OS?
. . . so the guy holds up an egg to the camera, and says:
"This is your battery!"
. . . then he cracks the egg into the frying pan on the stove and says while it sizzles and fries:
"This is your battery with Microsoft Windows Telemetry!"
"Any questions . . . ?"
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That's a terrible analogy. Fried eggs are awesome.
Great its a shitty fast browser. (Score:2)
I mean so what??? The UX design of Edge is atrocious. Like maybe they didn't even use a UX team bad. I'd much rather use a great browser than a shitty fast one!
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The UX design of Edge is atrocious. Like maybe they didn't even use a UX team bad.
They used part of a UX design team, but kicked out all the shadier members. :-)
Why don't I use Edge? IE6 (Score:4, Insightful)
IE6 demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that if Microsoft manages to get even the slightest lead over everyone else, their innovation will grind to a screeching halt and anything they do do will be exclusively for their own benefit.
I mean, we knew this already thanks to countless other examples of their behaviour, but IE6 is probably one of those visible and glaring, directly impacting the entire computer industry and internet.
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How the fuck is this insightful? When IE6 first came out, it actually was the best browser available. You're just a fucking moron who never moved on from 15+ years ago.
Read it again. That was exactly his point. When IE6 first came out, it actually was the best browser available.
Re: Why don't I use Edge? IE6 (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Why don't I use Edge? IE6 (Score:4, Insightful)
Uh, so instead we let Google pull that. [slashdot.org]
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Yeah... :\
I believe my first words after I originally saw that article were, "Oh FFS, not again..."
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IE6 demonstrated beyond a shadow
Okay hold up for a second. You're talking about something that happened to an ~40 year old company some 15 years ago. Very little of what happened in a company that long ago applies in the modern world. Your assessment is way off base. Microsoft innovation on anything desktop related HAS ground to a halt, well and truly, even in products they are behind in such as Edge.
They have demonstrated beyond a doubt that their only core competency remaining is cloud services.
Battery? (Score:2)
Who wins the Assault test?
I don't understand (Score:3, Insightful)
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Android is a Linux system.
Technically correct (the best kind of correct).
Then let me narrow it: I don't want Edge on my X11/Linux programming laptop.
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Does Edge for Android use their own browser engine yet or is it still just a shim around the system webview like on iOS?
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good, professional operating system?
Most people don't use one of those.
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Is less than 2 hours worth it? (Score:1)
Doesn't matter (Score:4, Interesting)
2) Last time I tried Edge the only site that worked well was microsoft.com
Has to last from start of bus trip to end (Score:2)
1a) Your local nuclear power plant still meters the energy that it sells to your local power distributor, which in turn probably passes the metering on to you.
1b) During that other 10 percent, it still has to last between when you're on mains at one end of the bus trip and when you're on mains at the other.
Says Microsoft (Score:3)
King of bloatware talking about an apps power usag (Score:2)
I get a chuckle thinking about how many decades it was required to reboot Microsoft Windows computers weekly so they wouldn't crash so often. And the nightly auto reboots people implemented when trying to use Windows
But... (Score:3)
Does Edge hog RAM like Chrome does?
I swear Chrome could store each page as a big ol' bitmap and still use less RAM than it does.
No shit? (Score:1)
This is worthless. (Score:2)
1. They choose a test which doesn't actually use the browser do do any processing - all it does it sit there while a video codec does all the hard, power-draining work.
2. They measured... runtime on batteries? That's ridiculous. Batteries have awful repeatability. Their performance depends on age, temperature, level of last charge cycle, recent depletion, pressure upon the cells, and sheer randomness. If you want to know how much power a program uses, just hook an ammeter up to the power cable and take the
Can't we agree that they both suck? (Score:2)
The browsers, and the companies that make them, all suck.
Google has become just as evil as Microsoft. Both company's want to make their browser the standard, and as soon as that happens - embrace, extend, extinguish.
Apple would do the same, if they could.
I just wish firefox worked better.
Edge? (Score:1)
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Let me guess. You run nothing but systemd as your OS and you like it that way. Who needs an interface when you can stare in rapt joy at the blank screen, after all.
Chi-Rho = XP (Score:2)
When you write out the Greek letters Chi-Rho, you get something that looks much like "XP".