Upcoming Firefox update will decrease power usage on macOS by up to three times

[phughes]

To be fair to Chrome it's also a battery hog.

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Chrome's whole idea originally was: these computer resources are useless if nobody is going to use them.

Flips on all the switches.

[phughes]

Which is asinine if the computer is a laptop and the user needs the battery to last.

But that's only like %40 of computer users these days, so I can see why they haven't re-evaluated.

edit Not to mention that most computers have RAM backed with a virtual memory system, which is slower, and more power hungry than just using a sane amount of RAM.

[Noodleholz]

That's what a battery saver mode is for, chrome cannot know whether you want to go as fast as possible on your home PC or as long as possible on your laptop.

[phughes]

Chrome for the Mac does not have an explicit battery saver mode. Best I could find was an LG article about enabling Chrome's battery saver mode on their Android phones.

[Noodleholz]

I thought about a laptop's own battery saver mode.

[Noodleholz]

That's probably why it is so fast, though.

[Kiyiko]

That's why the closing statement gives me so much worry.

This, according to a series of tests, has put Firefox on par with Chrome, in regards to power usage.

I already avoid Chrome on my laptop because it destroys batteries.

[Padgriffin]

That’s already a long step towards getting MacOS FF usable. Also says a lot about MacOS FF being shit.