Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test
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Re: Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test
#2So do the WebKit/safari teams' respective efforts to reduce power consumption not count? It seems odd that they didn't compare against safari given Apple makes a dedicated effort to reduce power consumption.
That it's a "mode" which defaults to off says a lot - the things it does aren't acceptable all of the time apparently, so you choose between features/performance, and battery life.
Re: Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test
#3So do the WebKit/safari teams' respective efforts to reduce power consumption not count? It seems odd that they didn't compare against safari given Apple makes a dedicated effort to reduce power consumption. That it's a "mode" which defaults to off says a lot - the things it does aren't acceptable all of the time apparently, so you choose between features/performance, and battery life.
Well you can't really compare Safari with Edge as they are are exclusive to different platforms.
Re: Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test
#4Opera with an ad blocker vs Edge without it doesn't seem like an ubiased test.
Re: Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test
#5Opera with an ad blocker vs Edge without it doesn't seem like an ubiased test.
And they say "Opera Developer (39.0.2248.0)" - which is presumably a dev build of the browser.
Like it would be fine if they say "in next version we will retake the top" or whatever but don't try to dispute their results by providing something they had no way of measuring.
Re: Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test
#6Opera with an ad blocker vs Edge without it doesn't seem like an ubiased test.
At least Opera was transparent about the details of their test. Was Microsoft?
Re: Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test
#7So do the WebKit/safari teams' respective efforts to reduce power consumption not count? It seems odd that they didn't compare against safari given Apple makes a dedicated effort to reduce power consumption. That it's a "mode" which defaults to off says a lot - the things it does aren't acceptable all of the time apparently, so you choose between features/performance, and battery life.
Well you can't really compare Safari with Edge as they are are exclusive to different platforms.
It wouldn't be too hard to dual-boot Win10 on Apple hardware and compare them, but it might be a little awkward for Microsoft to do so officially.
Re: Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test
#8Definitely not a fair test... Edge was rendering a lot more without an ad-blocker.
Re: Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test
#9So do the WebKit/safari teams' respective efforts to reduce power consumption not count? It seems odd that they didn't compare against safari given Apple makes a dedicated effort to reduce power consumption. That it's a "mode" which defaults to off says a lot - the things it does aren't acceptable all of the time apparently, so you choose between features/performance, and battery life.
Well you can't really compare Safari with Edge as they are are exclusive to different platforms.
But they could do a separate test of Opera, Safari, and Chrome on the Mac.
Re: Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test
#10Opera with an ad blocker vs Edge without it doesn't seem like an ubiased test.
It doesn't.
But there's no reason anyone should be running a browser without an ad-blocker in the first place. Edge should have a lightweight ad-blocker built-in by default.