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Browser Battery Life Test: IE vs Firefox vs Chrome vs Opera


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#1 Liskiller

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Posted 03 April 2012 - 12:06 PM

Browsers tested: Internet Explorer 9, Internet Explorer 10 beta (included in Windows 8 Consumer Preview), Google Chrome 18, Mozilla Firefox 11 and Opera 11.62. No addons were installed.

Laptop used: HP Pavillion dv7 2185dx with the following hardware configuration: Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q9000 @ 2.00 GHz, 6 GB of RAM DDR2, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650, fully updated Windows 7 and Windows 8 Consumer Preview for IE10.

Benchmark used: Peacekeeper battery test, which tests your browser until your battery runs down and Windows puts your computer to sleep.

Test Results: Internet Explorer 10 beta Delivers the Most Battery Lifetime. Opera is the winner on Windows 7.

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Test conducted by: Ciprian Adrian Rusen on 7tutorials.

#2 Preath

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Posted 03 April 2012 - 12:30 PM

Funny to see Chrome lose. Nice to see Opera is okay.

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Posted 03 April 2012 - 04:08 PM

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Funny to see Chrome lose. Nice to see Opera is okay.

Well that understandably because chrome use lot more ram with each new tab like separate process and shit like that.

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Posted 03 April 2012 - 06:12 PM


Funny to see Chrome lose. Nice to see Opera is okay.

Well that understandably because chrome use lot more ram with each new tab like separate process and shit like that.


Exactly, and this is better in real life because if a tab/plugin crashes, your whole browser won't crash.

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Posted 03 April 2012 - 06:56 PM



Funny to see Chrome lose. Nice to see Opera is okay.

Well that understandably because chrome use lot more ram with each new tab like separate process and shit like that.


Exactly, and this is better in real life because if a tab/plugin crashes, your whole browser won't crash.

Yea but even if crashes, FF/Opera just restart and load again everything like nothing happened ^_^

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Posted 03 April 2012 - 07:34 PM



Funny to see Chrome lose. Nice to see Opera is okay.

Well that understandably because chrome use lot more ram with each new tab like separate process and shit like that.


Exactly, and this is better in real life because if a tab/plugin crashes, your whole browser won't crash.

Still no excuse for the amount of RAM chrome gobbles up.

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Posted 03 April 2012 - 08:08 PM




Funny to see Chrome lose. Nice to see Opera is okay.

Well that understandably because chrome use lot more ram with each new tab like separate process and shit like that.


Exactly, and this is better in real life because if a tab/plugin crashes, your whole browser won't crash.

Yea but even if crashes, FF/Opera just restart and load again everything like nothing happened ^_^


That's the whole point. You don't need to restart your whole browser. Sometimes there would be a video that's taking forever to buffer, so I let it buffer in another tab. If I go to another tab, and then it becomes unresponsive, only that 1 tab will crash, and my video will keep buffering. In your case, you would have to re-buffer the whole video again.

Also, Chrome is better in the fact that if you open say 20 tabs, both browsers ram will go up significantly. Now say you close 19 of the tabs on both browsers. On firefox, the ram will still be quite high (higher than what it should be for 1 tab), but on Chrome, the processes for all the other tabs have ended, and the memory is what it should be for 1 tab.

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Posted 04 April 2012 - 05:04 AM

It's good that Firefox keeps flash and other plugins separately from the browser process. It increases it's RAM consumption but whenever my Firefox hangs I end task plugin-container.exe from the Task Manager and it starts working normally.

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Posted 05 April 2012 - 05:08 AM

Opera can also restore previous session when crashed, still it consumes less RAM and battery power.

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Posted 05 April 2012 - 06:38 AM

Chrome happens to has its performance cut off since the second half of 2011.

Anybody notice this? :no:

It used to be the indisputably best one.


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Posted 05 April 2012 - 10:12 PM

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Damn, you guys worry about RAM like it's 1999. Upgrade your computers.

#12 Munkypoo7

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Posted 05 April 2012 - 11:35 PM

Damn, you guys worry about RAM like it's 1999. Upgrade your computers.


Thank you.

This tenfold.

#13 hb860

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Posted 06 April 2012 - 06:04 AM

Huh, you can increase battery life by disabling flash in ANY browser. Flash uses many CPU time. Less CPU=more battery :)

#14 ThunderROM

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Posted 06 April 2012 - 10:14 AM

Damn, you guys worry about RAM like it's 1999. Upgrade your computers.

+1

New technologies can't be implemented on slow and old hardware.

#15 SurB86

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Posted 09 April 2012 - 05:40 AM

That's why Opera is the best for laptops! :D

#16 FalseAgent

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Posted 10 April 2012 - 01:46 AM

That's why Opera is the best for laptops! :D

Actually I find IE and Firefox to be pretty memory efficient too :yes:

#17 SurB86

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Posted 10 April 2012 - 10:41 AM

Opera is the only browser which works smoothly on my old Atom based netbook.

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