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You'd think they'd target Chrome (>60% market share on Desktop) rather than Firefox with < 8% market share.
The new Edge browser is basically a revamped Chromium, so that'd be a pretty dumb move.
Quick napkin math of the wasted power : Firefox has ~300e6 users, let's assume the bug wasted 5 extra watts 4 hours a day. That's 250 megawatts saved, the equivalent of an average coal power plant. Because some Microsoft engineer missed a bug.
The units don't make sense. You might mean megawatt-hours?
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doesn't this bug only manifest itself if one is using microsoft defender as their only security solution, and not a 3rd party AV/IS? if so, then the number of Firefox users in this calculation is much lower.
I don't know if that's the case. I'm a Firefox user but consider all the 3rd party apps nearly as much malware as the things they are trying to solve. I run strictly defender and try to make good choices when downloading and browsing.
Quick napkin math of the wasted power : Firefox has ~300e6 users, let's assume the bug wasted 5 extra watts 4 hours a day. That's 250 megawatts saved, the equivalent of an average coal power plant. Because some Microsoft engineer missed a bug.
The units don't make sense. You might mean megawatt-hours?
Quick napkin math of the wasted power : Firefox has ~300e6 users, let's assume the bug wasted 5 extra watts 4 hours a day. That's 250 megawatts saved, the equivalent of an average coal power plant. Because some Microsoft engineer missed a bug.
Produces in an hour, four hours?
Quick napkin math of the wasted power : Firefox has ~300e6 users, let's assume the bug wasted 5 extra watts 4 hours a day. That's 250 megawatts saved, the equivalent of an average coal power plant. Because some Microsoft engineer missed a bug.
The units don't make sense. You might mean megawatt-hours?
300 million users * 4 hours/day * 5 watts = an average continuous savings of 250 MW.
Quick napkin math of the wasted power : Firefox has ~300e6 users, let's assume the bug wasted 5 extra watts 4 hours a day. That's 250 megawatts saved, the equivalent of an average coal power plant. Because some Microsoft engineer missed a bug.
The units don't make sense. You might mean megawatt-hours?
My only interaction with Windows Defender is the (undefeatable) nag popup every boot that warns me it is disabled.
Having everyone easily disable Windows Defender will not lead to a great outcome.
There's a reason malware on Windows has been on a steep decline from the Windows XP days and I'd prefer it to keep it that way.
What apps other than Firefox might this have affected that badly (75% CPU usage)?
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The units don't make sense. You might mean megawatt-hours?
No, it makes sense. The parent is talking about continuous power measured in megawatts, i.e. megawatt-hours per hour, or megawatt-days per day. 300 million users * 4 hours/day * 5 watts = an average continuous savings of 250 MW.