Browser Battery Life ("Microsoft Edge Experiment" video)

[Channel 2012]

Running Windows 10 on a secondary machine, I sometimes read those little tooltips that pop up on the time & date screen. Today's was a link to another video about the latest statistics on Edge browser allegedly allowing for computers to have the best web-browsing battery life (proper Windows computers, not Windows Mobile). They compared to Chrome and (what's left of) Firefox, although they did forget to include Pale Moon in the comparison.

Any thoughts as to how Pale Moon measures up with its optimizations? Has anyone formally tested or compared the browser in that way? Just curious as to what the community thought about this topic of browser efficiency impacting battery life of portable computers.

[Moonchild]

It depends entirely on which sites you visit and what activities you perform.

[Channel 2012]

It depends entirely on which sites you visit and what activities you perform.

Naturally. In a direct comparison, the same script and set of webpages should be used, so one can really get to see where a browser shines.

[Moonchild]

It depends entirely on which sites you visit and what activities you perform.

Naturally. In a direct comparison, the same script and set of webpages should be used, so one can really get to see where a browser shines.

Even in direct comparison, it depends entirely on your test set. Different browser architectures will use different amounts of cycles for the same content. some content will use more in browser A, some more in browser B. It's extremely easy to present a test set that seems to be unbiased and fair but actually isn't.