Microsoft shows how bad Chrome is for your laptop's battery life

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Well Edge is a UWP app, we should wait for Google to bring out a oh wait....
 
Lately I often have to switch to Edge because Chrome freezes or exhibits some other untoward behaviour.
 
The_Librarian said:
M$ is an old hand at subverting the underlying OS in order to destabilize programs from competitors, and to give their own apps a speed boost.
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Who knows what the reason is, but Chrome is not working well any more.

Maybe just bloated ?
 
Interesting test. Would like to see this confirmed.

Also been starting to relook at FF - Chrome running slower and slower.
 
IE6 made sure I don't ever switch to Edge even if can make my laptop run for 3 days on a single charge.

I did switched back to FF about a year ago as I had some issues with Chrome not starting properly. Logged into my FF sync and it installed my old Greasemonkey and Adblock Plus add-ons. Could not for the life of me figure out why I went to Chrome in the 1st place.
 
AlphaJohn said:
IE6 made sure I don't ever switch to Edge even if can make my laptop run for 3 days on a single charge.

I did switched back to FF about a year ago as I had some issues with Chrome not starting properly. Logged into my FF sync and it installed my old Greasemonkey and Adblock Plus add-ons. Could not for the life of me figure out why I went to Chrome in the 1st place.
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Maybe you should try and see what is happening with Edge? Do you understand what MS has done in developing Edge? Trying to decide what it can and can't do with IE 6 as your reference is just crazy.
 
daniellgr said:
And you use Edge everyday?
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Yes I even moved my bookmarks over aswell but it didn't work out. Saw this comment on The Verge
Drew. said:
I tried switching to Edge about 2 months ago since it seems like its slightly more responsive than Chrome, but then it randomly crashed after an hour or 2 like it always does. That and it’s just missing a number of basic features that are annoying once you’ve realized you’ve lost them. Moreover, Edge isn’t a cross platform browse while Chrome is everywhere that matters. I don’t see the appeal for Edge outside of people who were already using IE before and Microsoft fans.
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I experienced the crashes aswell. It's prolly fixed in the Insider Preview builds but sod it. Going to install Ubuntu on a separate HDD and maybe move over completely soon and run Chrome there. The problem for MS is that W10m doesn't have any marketshare and people want cross syncing bookmarks. Ha!
 
daniellgr said:
Maybe you should try and see what is happening with Edge? Do you understand what MS has done in developing Edge? Trying to decide what it can and can't do with IE 6 as your reference is just crazy.
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Its not about what it can or can not do, its about what Microsoft did to the internet and how it ignored standards to force its own idea's. It was so bad that it created a nightmare for anyone that supported anything web related in that time.
 
https://html5test.com/

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FF top, Chrome Middle and Edge Bottom.

Edit: O.O --> IE11 On Windows 10 (Latest updates & Builds)

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and ff on android scores better than the desktop version

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