Microsoft made a remarkable announcement as they have found a way to extend your laptop's battery life. It was recently revealed that techies should avoid using Google Chrome as it easily drains the battery life of your laptop.
In a demonstration done by Microsoft, it was revealed that a laptop running on Google Chrome easily drains compared to laptops that are using other browsers. In a lab controlled environment, Microsoft conducted their test using four browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Microsoft Edge.
According to Ars Technica, laptops that run on Google Chrome only lasted for 4 hours and 19 minutes, while the ones running on Firefox lasted for 5 hours and 9 minutes. As for the laptop running on Opera's battery saving feature on the other hand, the battery life was able to last for 6 hours and 18 minutes. The browser which lasted the longest is said to be the Microsoft Edge as it was able to run for 7 hours and 22 minutes.
The data that was collected revealed that there's a 70 percent battery life extension if the user would run the laptop through Microsoft Edge instead of Google Chrome.
"[W]e measure aggregated telemetry from millions of Windows 10 devices around the world," Microsoft noted as per the Social Barrel. "The billions of data points from these devices are consistent with the lab results, demonstrating that Microsoft Edge is more efficient in real-world, day-to-day use than the competition."
Aside from the browsers, Microsoft also made sure that everything is the same for all laptops being used. They checked the device's power consumption, Wi-Fi, CPU, and GPU. Microsoft also made sure that all four laptops would go through the same websites such as Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Youtube and Wikipedia. Microsoft Edge is said to be ideal for mobile devices as it can potentially extend the battery life.
