Mozilla plans to reduce power consumption of Firefox

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Power consumption has risen to importance in the browser world ever since mobile became the new battle ground.

While it is not the only metric that matters and probably not something that most users pick a mobile browser by,

it seems to gain some prominence lately due to mobile device power requirements and a lack of breakthroughs

in battery technology.

A study from 2014 by Anandtech compared the battery life of a Dell XPS 15 laptop when running

popular browsers and Firefox did not perform overly well in the test when compared to Internet Explorer specifically.

Firefox is not the only browser that could do better though.

A recent test by the Verge showed that Chrome tapped out after less than 10 hours on a new

MacBook Pro with Retina display while Safari did not until 13 hours had passed.

Another recent test concluded that Chrome is doing worst when it comes to battery usage followed by

Firefox and then Internet Explorer.

There is also the Energia Dashboard highlighting cpu and power consumption of Firefox, Chrome

and Internet Explorer on popular websites. Mozilla's Project Candle aims to improve the

power consumption of Firefox on all platforms it is offered on

(meaning desktop, mobile and Firefox OS). This is done mostly by evaluating power bugs that exist on Bugzilla

but also by adding new bugs that introduce power-related improvements to Firefox to Bugzilla.

Mozilla plans to reduce power consumption of Firefox (ghacks)

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