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Microsoft: Internet Explorer 10 Is The Most Energy-Efficient Browser

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Re: Microsoft: Internet Explorer 10 Is The Most Energy-Efficient Browser

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Post by cpdean »

iamshs wrote: post #16
mark-r wrote: post #13

Yup, that's the first thing I look for in a browser - energy efficiency.

In portable computing, it can help battery last longer. Just because it is not user facing, does not mean it should be ignored by engineers.

As soon as microsoft tries to release an IEbook to compete with the Chomebook, this metric will have a greater impact on battery life.

Re: Microsoft: Internet Explorer 10 Is The Most Energy-Efficient Browser

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Post by wtallis »

joezhou wrote: post #4

Too bad windows isn't that energy efficient...

Yep. IE may be more efficient than using a different browser on Windows, but it can't hold a candle to most Android and iOS devices, and there aren't many Windows laptops that can beat Apple's in tests like this.

However, this is mostly caused by poor drivers and firmware, and both Microsoft and Intel have lately been pressuring the rest of the PC ecosystem to clean up their act so that devices like ultrabooks can be viable. The resulting improvements will help other browsers just as much as IE.

Re: Microsoft: Internet Explorer 10 Is The Most Energy-Efficient Browser

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Post by WatchDog »

joezhou wrote: post #4

Too bad windows isn't that energy efficient...

I don't think that is really a fair call to make. From the benchmarks I have seen laptop battery life is generally ranked OSX>Windows>Linux. I think the OSX advantage can be largely attributed to their total control over hardware/OS. Some benchmarks: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gadgetreviews/windows-7-vs-snow-le... http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE2N...

Re: Microsoft: Internet Explorer 10 Is The Most Energy-Efficient Browser

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Post by rbanffy »

cl8ton wrote: post #30
bhauer wrote: post #19

The anti-Microsoft air is thick enough in here that it stings my eyes. (Note I am an avid Mozilla fan.)

I noticed that as I sit here reading the comments in Chrome that has 4gb of memory consumed and 2 cores almost pegged. IE10 is a great step forward, now if they would render with WebKit...

According to top, Chrome is behaving very well here. CPU load is below 10% as I type and memory footprint, although not negligible, is well within what I would consider reasonable (under 1 GB for 4 Gmail tabs and a couple less clever sites). Pegging two cores seems excessive. What are you running?

Re: Microsoft: Internet Explorer 10 Is The Most Energy-Efficient Browser

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Post by wtallis »

mattparlane wrote: post #33

Can't believe that no one has mentioned the chart yet -- a non-zero baseline is highly misleading. http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/browser_...

There is at least a slight chance that the non-zero baseline represents power consumption at the desktop with no browser running, so that the heights on the chart depict just the power draw attributable to the browser (it may also be a baseline relative to showing about:blank). 15W+ even for simple stuff like Wikipedia seems pretty high to have the base load already subtracted out, unless this is just a measurement of the peak power draw during rendering (in which case we need to normalize by time to get Joules instead of Watts).

EDIT: reading the PDF, this seems to be the case: they claim an at-desktop baseline of 14.7W average for the six notebooks they tested. Actual baselines for the notebooks tested varied from 9.76W to 22.65W, and the most strenuous test adds 3.11W-6.92W depending on the machine (and oddly enough, it wasn't always YouTube that had the highest power draw - on one machine, it was Bing, if the data is to be believed).

Re: Microsoft: Internet Explorer 10 Is The Most Energy-Efficient Browser

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Post by rbanffy »

cpdean wrote: post #32
chipsy wrote: post #3

I'm pretty sure the title would belong to something like Lynx.

Lynx will get the title as soon as Adobe releases a flash plugin for it.

I'm quite sure disabling Flash is the single most important optimization one can use on a browser when it comes to CPU, memory and energy consumption.

Re: Microsoft: Internet Explorer 10 Is The Most Energy-Efficient Browser

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Post by rwg »

mattparlane wrote: post #33

Can't believe that no one has mentioned the chart yet -- a non-zero baseline is highly misleading. http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/browser_...

The misleading Y-axes on two of the charts on the IE blog post were the first thing I noticed:

http://blogs.windows.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2013/06/05/internet...

Here's the top chart (left) and the same chart except with a less misleading Y-axis (right):

http://i.imgur.com/zI1UJeS.png

Re: Microsoft: Internet Explorer 10 Is The Most Energy-Efficient Browser

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Post by rbanffy »

Zhenya wrote: post #2

Prius has the best tire wear - bested the ferrari. I am not looking to optimize energy usage with a browser; I am looking to optimize speed and security. Complete straw man .

When you are running on batteries, conserving power is certainly worth optimizing for.
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