But why should we trust these claims? Testing technology battery life is notoriously difficult. Having hours of more battery life on your laptop because you chose Edge over Chrome sounds amazing. The OS is already there, ready to do the graphical work. With Edge, you can scroll the web page without, Weber said, waking it up. If it's Chrome, Chrome then tells Windows 10 it needs to animate the screen to scroll up or down.

'Hey, we have work to do and you tell us when it’s most efficient to do that work,' said Weber.įor example, when you touch the screen of your Windows 10 touchscreen computer, the hardware wakes up, sends a message to the web browser on screen. It's one way to get through city, but uses a lot of gas,' he said.Īccording to Weber, Chrome and Firefox are constantly talking to the operating system. He described it as waking up roughly 60 times a second (and sometimes up to 250 times a second).Įdge takes advantage of its deeper integration with the operating system to wake less frequently, he claimed.

Weber contends that Chrome is a city driver. 'When you’re browsing the web with Chrome, like city miles, it wakes up, sprints to next stop light, stops and then sprints to next stop light. Some run like they're always in the city while others operate in a more efficient highway miles mode. Jason Weber, Microsoft's director of program management for Microsoft Edge, explained that different web browsers consume energy in very different ways, much like cars don't all consume gas in the same way. Some are more efficient than others.

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