Why was Safari excluded? It's an interesting data point in the power-efficiency topic.
Building a more power-efficient browser
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Re: Building a more power-efficient browser
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Extensions are coming with the anniversary update in a month or so, I'm excited!
I have a Surface Book, once Edge support EFF Privacy Badger, Edge will likely become my default browser.
If you're looking for privacy, I would stay away from proprietary browsers (and operating systems, especially those with mandatory telemetry that are produced by an NSA PRISM corporation.)
Re: Building a more power-efficient browser
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Seriously why on Earth does this happen? Even if Edge ends up being more power-efficient the rest of the OS (Windows 10) is going to ensure that I will get no more than 3 hours of battery life on my laptop.
Windows update via svchost.exe has been the problem on the machines I support. I randomly eats 100% of the CPU for minutes at a time. http://www.wintips.org/how-to-fix-svchost-exe-netsvcs-memory...
If I don't use a specific PC for around a week, it's basically unusable on startup. CPU/HDD are at 100% for around 20 minutes, then every now and then they spike again.
I dunno what the hell Microsoft are playing at, but I'm in the process of switching all my computers to Linux.
Re: Building a more power-efficient browser
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I'm not certain what causes it for you, but for me it was microsoft's antimalware scans. These are supposed to run only in 'idle' mode but for whatever reason were running while I was using my computer. What's worse is the automatic OS restarts that seem to also think I'm in idle mode.
If you're using Windows 10, have you set your active times?
I ended up turning off all that crap eventually. I cant remember what exactly I did but it was quite an adventure that involved registry edits and stopping services. Certainly not something that is made easy.
Re: Building a more power-efficient browser
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People will use it, but only if they know it's there. I've met a ton of Safari users who have no idea what that thing is or even that it's there in the first place. They tend to love it after I pointed out to them. Microsoft is probably doing the right thing here.
We get great feedback from users who discover the feature and want it to be discoverable without being obtrusive. If you haven't seen the animation, you might be overestimating it - it's extremely subtle and tasteful, just a tiny flip of the pages in the reading mode button when it goes from an inactive to active state.
Even if you insist on the "ad" it still needs to be displayed only to the users that never clicked it, once anybody clicked once, you aren't helping him "discover" it.
Re: Building a more power-efficient browser
#86I believe they are too late to bring this up.
Re: Building a more power-efficient browser
#87Honestly I'd be happy if they could stop Windows 10 from turning my laptop into a hair dryer randomly while it is otherwise entirely idle. The thing is sitting there doing nothing, suddenly the fan will start roaring and the CPU utilization spikes.
> The thing is sitting there doing nothing
Doing nothing, except mabye mining a fuckton of data about you and sending it to Microsoft.
Re: Building a more power-efficient browser
#88Why was Safari excluded? It's an interesting data point in the power-efficiency topic.
Doesn't run on Windows. So you'd change more than the browser running on otherwise exactly the same machine, making a comparison difficult.
Re: Building a more power-efficient browser
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're using Windows 10, have you set your active times?
I ended up turning off all that crap eventually. I cant remember what exactly I did but it was quite an adventure that involved registry edits and stopping services. Certainly not something that is made easy.
If you're on Pro or above you can set updates to download on demand
Re: Building a more power-efficient browser
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a hint to users that reading mode may provide a better experience. When we introduced it, reading mode usage went up; without the (very subtle) animation, users weren't aware when the feature would be useful.
The real problem here is that, as with a lot of other aspects of UIs today, most of your users probably have no idea what that icon or indeed a lot of the others is supposed to mean. If it was just plainly marked "Reading Mode", you might get the usage increase without wasting countless hours designing an animation and having it, in turn, waste the energy of your user's machines and then having to spend even more tim…
Counterexample: Safari 7 had a big blue button that said "Reader." It was literally the largest button in the app.
Usage did not change.