Building a more power-efficient browser

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Post by ingve » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 8:13 PM UTC

Building a more power-efficient browser
blogs.windows.com

Re: Building a more power-efficient browser

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Post by gtirloni » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 9:32 PM UTC

That's pretty nice but the lack of plugins means I can't have LastPass/1Password, uBlock, etc, which kills it for me.

Re: Building a more power-efficient browser

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Post by JBiserkov » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 9:41 PM UTC

gtirloni wrote: post #2

That's pretty nice but the lack of plugins means I can't have LastPass/1Password, uBlock, etc, which kills it for me.

Extensions are coming with the anniversary update in a month or so, I'm excited!

Re: Building a more power-efficient browser

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Post by adrianlmm » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 9:48 PM UTC

gtirloni wrote: post #2

That's pretty nice but the lack of plugins means I can't have LastPass/1Password, uBlock, etc, which kills it for me.

https://imgur.com/g31emJv

I'm using extensions.

Re: Building a more power-efficient browser

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Post by personjerry » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 9:53 PM UTC

But how does it compare to Safari on Apple computers? AFAIK Safari is extremely power efficient.

Re: Building a more power-efficient browser

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Post by fsiefken » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 10:16 PM UTC

That's odd, a month ago I read a statement from Opera that they had the most power efficient browser. Which is the most powerefficient? http://www.windowscentral.com/opera-adds-power-saving-mode-i...

Re: Building a more power-efficient browser

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Post by talles » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 10:17 PM UTC

The item 3 is very impressive. Anyone knows if the other major browsers test for such thing?

Re: Building a more power-efficient browser

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Post by mtgx » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 10:28 PM UTC

I wish they didn't do these tests on a Microsoft-made Surface Book...They should've taken a couple of other popular Windows 10 notebooks and maybe do the tests on those. Who knows how much of this difference is because of Edge itself (which is how well it would work on other notebooks, too), and how much it's the optimization they did for Edge for their own hardware.

Re: Building a more power-efficient browser

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Post by cptskippy » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 10:29 PM UTC

personjerry wrote: post #5

But how does it compare to Safari on Apple computers? AFAIK Safari is extremely power efficient.

That's really an Apples to Oranges comparison since Macs and PCs aren't comparable. Yes you could run Windows in BootCamp but it isn't tuned for that and is actually hampered. It would be like making a Surface Pro a hackintosh and using that as a basis for comparison.

Re: Building a more power-efficient browser

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Post by 542458 » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 10:35 PM UTC

cptskippy wrote: post #9

personjerry wrote: post #5

But how does it compare to Safari on Apple computers? AFAIK Safari is extremely power efficient.

That's really an Apples to Oranges comparison since Macs and PCs aren't comparable. Yes you could run Windows in BootCamp but it isn't tuned for that and is actually hampered. It would be like making a Surface Pro a hackintosh and using that as a basis for comparison.

> you could run Windows in BootCamp but it isn't tuned for that and is actually hampered

How is bootcamp'ed windows hampered? It works perfectly fine for me. In fact, it's better than many Windows laptops I've used because they almost all ship with so much bloatware on them.