Power consumption of popular browsers – Chrome vs Safari vs Firefox [OsX]

[bwana]

We all love Chrome. The statistics prove that it has grown to be the most popular browser in the world (roughly 64.8% of all internet visits are on Chrome). But it’s got a dirty secret: it’s devastating to your laptop battery life.

TL;DR; If you’re a MacBook user, you’re losing an average of 1 hour of total battery life by using Chrome. Firefox is a little better, but Safari is the clear winner. You’ll want to use Safari if you want to get the most battery out of your laptop.

http://blog.getbatterybox.com/which...energy-efficient-chrome-vs-safari-vs-firefox/

 

[Lord Flacko]

Only ever use Safari. Don't believe in using other other browsers for my Mac.

 

[greg0205]

Power consumption of popular browsers – Chrome vs Safari vs Firefox [OsX]

Yep. Safari only for me as well... What's this "we all love Chrome" thing??

 

[$m@Rt@$$]

Yeah, Chrome on Mac sucks.

 

[Grant]

i have safari, chrome & firefox.
i've found chrome to be the most resource hungry of the 3 - very seldom use it.

safari & firefox are used for different purposes.
i use safari for websites that i very frequently visit and have no need for any media to load - ie mybb
so, with safari, adblock is running and images etc are disabled.
firefox is used if i go to sites where there is media i specifically want to see - google images, youtube, facebook etc

 

[bwana]

I use firefox for SARS and chrome for reading my online newspaper - everything else is Safari.

 

[Johnatan56]

The reason is the same as why ie takes so little time to load/doesn't use that many resources. They already load it into the system. So even if you have chrome/firefox running, safari still has some of its components running.