Tests published by Microsoft a few days ago showed that using the Edge browser in Windows 10 provides a longer lifespan batteryς στη συσκευή. Τα αποτελέσματα μάλιστα έδειχνα καθαρή υπεροχή του browser της Microsoft σε όλους τους αντιπάλους του, όπως το Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera.
Since the first publication here at iGuRu.gr we mentioned that tests were carried out by Microsoft itself and we doubted their objectivity.
Was we right?
Opera is a company heavily invested in technologies battery saver for its browser, which is why it decided to do its own tests to see if Microsoft's new browser really is the most energy efficient.
Tests have proven they are not.
"The dev version of Opera (39.0.2248.0) with native ad blocker and energy saving technology was able to run 22% faster than Microsoft Edge (version 25.10586.0.0) on a laptop running Windows 10, 64- bits, and 35% more than the latest version of Google Chrome (51.0.2704.103), ”the tests show.
While Microsoft hasn't given the exact methodology it used to determine the browsers' energy consumption, Opera has provided more details and explained that what it did was a "browsing of a series of popular websites where automation simulates interaction with the webσελίδα, bringing the method closer to what we expect from a normal browsing of such a page.”
The new battery-saving feature of Opera, which helps reduce the energy needed to browse the web, applies a number of optimizations to the software to improve battery life.
Σε αυτές συμπεριλαμβάνονται η μείωση της δραστηριότητας στις καρτέλες φόντου, η αυτόματα παύση αχρησιμοποίητων plug-ins, μείωση του frame rate στα 30 fps, το σταμάτημα των κινούμενων σχεδίων σε θέματα του προγράμματος περιήγησης, και το ξύπνημα της CPU λιγότερο συχνά.
Of course, if Google decides to carry out its own tests, we will see Chrome winner.
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