Do more with Chrome on a single charge on MacBooks • Hacker News Board

Re: Do more with Chrome on a single charge on MacBooks

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Post by altairprime » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 5:47 PM UTC

voidwtf wrote: post #10

Can someone explain to me how I'm supposed to develop an Enterprise web app, that requires a regular "liveliness" check-in and to continue to receive timely notifications without internet access (internal only)? Between all the creative ways they're finding to decide they should throttle a tab or put it to sleep, and the ways they keep screwing with timers/intervals, I feel like I'm being forced back to pushing for a…

It sounds like you need an Electron app. Seriously. I’m not a fan of it, but it’s the web backend with knobs for you to prevent power-saving modes from interfering with your website.

Re: Do more with Chrome on a single charge on MacBooks

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Post by brundolf » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 9:51 PM UTC

culopatin wrote: post #24

I’ve been using safari for the last two years, the main reason being battery usage and integration with keychain. But I keep hearing about how it’s not the best at rendering pages because developers have to implement workarounds for safari all the time, so it made me wonder if the sites I use would work better in Chrome. Not to mention the extension library. Honestly I haven’t felt a difference, and thinking that Chr…

Why are you making an effort to transition to Chrome if you don't even notice a compatibility improvement?

Re: Do more with Chrome on a single charge on MacBooks

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Post by brundolf » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 9:55 PM UTC

chongli wrote: post #27

febstar wrote: post #20

None of these improvements seem Mac-specific. Does Chrome on other OSs have these?

If you want to maximize battery life on a Mac, you need to do Mac-specific things. The most energy efficient way to do things is to hook into proprietary APIs such as CTS and GCD. You can’t get around these by doing it yourself because they’re designed to coordinate tasks across all running processes. This high level of coordination improves efficiency because the CPU can wake up, crank through the queue of scheduled…

I don't see in the article where they mention using Mac-specific APIs though

Re: Do more with Chrome on a single charge on MacBooks

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Post by happymellon » Thu, Mar 02, 2023, 8:28 AM UTC

Klonoar wrote: post #3

repeek wrote: post #2

Will this also improve performance of Electron apps on Mac?

It would need to get into Electron, if possible, then apps would need to update to the newest Electron - which many apps don’t always do.

As a Linux user I can confirm that they can lag years behind the current version of Electron.

Re: Do more with Chrome on a single charge on MacBooks

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Post by freeAgent » Thu, Mar 02, 2023, 10:44 PM UTC

zuhsetaqi wrote: post #30

xNeil wrote: post #23

Man, I have an M1 Mac and downloaded Chrome about a week ago. This thing drains my battery. I mean, I still get 10 hours out of the machine, but it's extraordinarily bad - running Chrome made me hear my Mac's fans for the first time since I bought it (>2 years)! Safari isn't a browser I like, but one that I need to use - every other browser is simply too inefficient.

You could try Orion[0] which is based on Safari. It fixes a lot of issues I have with Safari. It's also available for iOS and does even support uBlock Origin on iOS. [0] https://browser.kagi.com/

Orion is great, but it does have some extension compatibility issues. One huge annoyance for me is 1Password. Apparently, they refuse to whitelist Orion because it’s a niche browser. I’m all for more people using it so they change their minds.