What browser should you use to save your batteries?

Posted by anthonykuo , Sep, 2009 @ 8:41 am

internet battery

You wouldn’t think it, but your choice of what browser you use has a pretty significant impact on your computer’s battery life. And since the majority of what we do on our computers is browse the web (unless you’re a graphic designer or video editor or hardcore gamer), it can add up to a pretty significant chunk of time.

So lets have a look at the study and the results (courtesy of Apartment Therapy Unplugged)
battery browser
Explored by the team at Anandtech, the graph above pretty much sums up the results quite nicely. After a series of tests, they found that there was a 30% difference between the worst performing browser, Apple’s Safari, and the best – Internet Explorer 8. Firefox comes up second, even with Adblock installed. Yeah, we’re pretty surprised ourselves at the results.

Of course, we take all these tests with a grain of salt. We’re speculating IE might have done so well due to certain elements possibly being pre-loaded by the OS. But then again, we might be completely wrong and it might actually deserve the praise from these tests.

Tags: battery, browser, chrome, firefox, Google, ie8, internet, microsoft, safari