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Re: Building a more power-efficient browser

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Post by mey » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 4:44 PM UTC

wlesieutre wrote: post #27

mey wrote: post #13

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I have a Surface Book, once Edge support EFF Privacy Badger, Edge will likely become my default browser.

Sold my SP3, but do Firefox and Chrome both still feel wrong on the touchscreen, as far as scrolling and zooming go? I'd been using IE on that thing on account of nobody else being able to do it right.

Chrome has gotten better with touch and pen support, but Edge is still much cleaner. Zooming in things like Google Maps on Chrome still isn't great, but the biggest issue is the mouse cursor disappears regularly with Chrome and requires a force quit of Chrome (which is trying to run in the background) to fix.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=451965

Re: Building a more power-efficient browser

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Post by slezyr » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 6:40 PM UTC

ams6110 wrote: post #57

Honestly 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.

CPU? Never had problems with it.

But it literally rapes my HDD while updating(anytime it wants) or it's AV scanning disk(and you can't turn it off)

It makes my desktops unusable.

Re: Building a more power-efficient browser

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Post by JoBrad » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 8:08 PM UTC

throwaway13337 wrote: post #84

JoBrad wrote: post #74

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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.

The setting I'm talking about is in Update Settings -> Change Active Hours. From your previous post, it sounds like you haven't disabled automatic updates, so changing when they update so it doesn't happen while you're working might be a good option, and it has nothing to do with the registry.

Re: Building a more power-efficient browser

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Post by gtirloni » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 8:27 PM UTC

MBCook wrote: post #50

ohitsdom wrote: post #22

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Comparing Edge on Windows to Safari on macOS is apples to apples. Browsers running on an OS. I d be really interested in this comparison, since Apple's big selling point is being apple to specialize since they control the hardware. If Edge can come close or beat them on more diverse hardware, that would be very impressive.

Not quite. I imagine Windows isn't well optimized for a MacBook Pro, Apple isn't going to go out of their way to squeeze every drop of efficiency out like they do on OS X.

The MacBook Pro is standard x86 hardware nowadays using off the shelf parts available to most manufacturers (except maybe the chassis and display). Do you know if there's something else special about them?

Re: Building a more power-efficient browser

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Post by cptskippy » Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 3:58 PM UTC

gtirloni wrote: post #104

MBCook wrote: post #50

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Not quite. I imagine Windows isn't well optimized for a MacBook Pro, Apple isn't going to go out of their way to squeeze every drop of efficiency out like they do on OS X.

The MacBook Pro is standard x86 hardware nowadays using off the shelf parts available to most manufacturers (except maybe the chassis and display). Do you know if there's something else special about them?

I know that in order to use the following you must install Apple's Support Drivers on your Windows Image.

* USB 3

* USB-C on the MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015) and later

* Thunderbolt

* Built-in SD or SDXC card slot

* Built-in or USB Apple SuperDrive

* Your Apple keyboard, trackpad, and mouse

Assuming BootCamp were just a hyper-visor exposing the underlying hardware or a HAL, why are custom drivers necessary for those things?