Microsoft kicks off campaign touting battery savings of Windows 10's Edge browser

[Batu69]

Microsoft is going on the browser offensive with new test results showing Windows 10 Edge bests Google, Opera and Firefox on battery life.

 

Microsoft is kicking off a campaign touting the power-saving capabilities of its Edge as a key selling point for its built-in Windows 10 browser.

On June 20, company officials are publicizing results of its own controlled lab tests which show Edge bests other browsers, including Chrome, Opera and Firefox. Microsoft execs also blogged about the processes and the lab set-up the company used to test the battery life of Windows machines running various browsers.

When opening web sites, scrolling through articles, watching videos and opening new tabs across commonly used sites (including Facebook, Google, YouTube, Amazon Wikipedia and more), Windows 10 users will get up to 36 percent to 35 percent more battery life if they use Edge, Microsoft officials said.

 

In Microsoft's streaming video tests, Edge outlasted Chrome and Firefox with between 17 percent and 70 percent more battery life, according to company officials.

Microsoft is kicking off its Edge battery campaign just a month ahead of its expected release of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. That Windows 10 refresh "will include even more power-saving improvements, using fewer CPU cycles, consuming less memory, and minimizing the impact of background activity and peripheral content like Flash advertisements," officials said in today's blog post.

 

Only about one in four Windows 10 users are currently running Edge, even though the browser is bundled with Windows 10 by default, as my ZDNet colleague Ed Bott reported recently. In part, this may be due to the current lack of support for widely used ad-blocking and password-saving extensions in Edge -- something Microsoft will remedy with the Anniversary Update.

 

But there may be other factors at play here. I've been using Windows 10 on a couple of different laptops and have found Edge to lag on a number of the sites I frequent when compared to Google Chrome. Edge's scrolling and readability is great on Windows 10, but I've felt that Edge was slow to load a number of both my new and frequented sites, in spite of previous Microsoft claims about Edge's speed. I've also continue to run into some sites that don't display correctly on Edge.

 

I personally haven't attempted to measure in any way battery life when using Chrome vs. Edge. But Google's battery-eating problems with Chrome have been documented widely and, at least partially, addressed. Opera recently introduced a new power-saving mode meant to improve battery life by up to 50 percent, according to company officials.

 

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Video: Microsoft Edge Experiment: Battery Life

[Airstream_Bill]

Edge is Pretty Good.  It will gain more users when the users of other browsers find out how well it works and what is already built into it.  My Opinion anyway. 

[steven36]

It may gain more users once they get addons  , but still it's only on windows 10  and  most windows 10 users don't use it  .  They cant even get windows 10's 300 million + users to use it and there's over 3 billion people on the internet  and the majority  of there O/S don't have this browser . The only reason I ever used IE before  as my default browser was the fact I was a noob and there was nothing really to chose from better. Microsoft  won the 1st Browser Wars against Netscape . But once Netscape came back as Firefox by Firefox v2 it  was my default browser and i never ever thought about using a Microsoft browser again  and that was 10 years ago .

 

Just like IE,  Microsoft fixes bugs in Edge on a fixed schedule.Meaning if there was some 0day bug you have wait tell a patch Tuesday  and they have a 3 months grace period meaning a bug could be present  over  1/4 of the year before it ever is patched . Firefox and Google do bug fixes all trough the month for there browsers .  And even if they improved there schedule it still don't address all the privacy Issues Edge has over a Firefox based browser .

[D1v1n3D]

It's current latest stable version is complete and utter GARBAGE locks up constantly this is on a fresh install as of 2 days ago with all updates on stable W10 I couldn't get edge to close or go to google.com then it started freaking out the start menu as soon as I replaced it with chrome and all defaults to chrome all these issues went away. The Appz system in W10 is very unreliable and unstable it really pisses me off because Edge is without a doubt the fastest browser there is, it's just to bad it is a shit on a shingle in it's current state.

[steven36]

37 minutes ago, D1v1n3D said:

It's current latest stable version is complete and utter GARBAGE locks up constantly this is on a fresh install as of 2 days ago with all updates on stable W10 I couldn't get edge to close or go to google.com then it started freaking out the start menu as soon as I replaced it with chrome and all defaults to chrome all these issues went away. The Appz system in W10 is very unreliable and unstable it really pisses me off because Edge is without a doubt the fastest browser there is, it's just to bad it is a shit on a shingle in it's current state.

 

In windows 10 current state period its buggy compared to Windows 8.1 , I'm testing Windows 10 again to see if redstone will be anybetter . I don't know if i can deal with this much longer before i reformat with Windows 8.1 or Linux and reinstall once redstone comes out.   All Linux O/S i tested since 2015 are more snappy  than Win7-Win 10 

 

This bug has been present in windows 10 TH for like a year now.

Windows 10 freezes randomly 60 page topic

http://www.tenforums.com/general-support/12074-windows-10-freezes-randomly.html?s=b0b36909502097e48179371bb30d2eb2

 

The only thing I seen that improved since TH1  is the fact Microsoft now has the right AMD drivers for my pc  from windows updates in TH2 .

 

When I tested windows 7 before SP1 came out it had bug almost as bad were if you tired to open stuff on desktop it would freeze up they made a hotfix to fix it and put it in SP1 .

 

[LeeSmithG]

21 hours ago, Airstream_Bill said:

Edge is Pretty Good.  It will gain more users when the users of other browsers find out how well it works and what is already built into it.  My Opinion anyway. 

 

I would like us Windows seven (7) users to be able to use it.

 

I have seen mythical links for it to work on seven (7) but mythical is the key here.

[haxzion]

I would like us Win7 users to get dx12 support so we won't have to install this ugly looking,buggy, full of spyware-bloatware OS.

That's all i want but it aint gonna happen.

[steven36]

1 hour ago, haxzion said:

I would like us Win7 users to get dx12 support so we won't have to install this ugly looking,buggy, full of spyware-bloatware OS.

That's all i want but it aint gonna happen.

Saying you want  any thing new by Microsoft  in Windows 7  is just wishful  thinking .  It want even be  getting windows updates in 4 more years its end of mainstream support ended January 13, 2015  It's not really got nothing new since Windows 8 came out though in 2012  .  Windows 8 has not got nothing new since the release of Windows 10 July 29 2015  and Windows 8 has mainstream support tell January 9, 2018 .

 

When ever they make a new windows brand,  that's the end of the line for new futures for old releases , It use too be you got a year of security  updates on old releases without the latest service release or service pack on windows 10 you don't even get that  as long as you can put off a update is 1 month and that's only if you have pro or better that you can put updates off for a month l if you use home version you can't put them off at all unless you block Windows update with a Firewall.

 

Spyware can be blocked and bloatware can be removed though , bugs  is a different story though .

[pc71520]

Edge has just been my secondary browser; nothing more.

[steven36]

1 hour ago, pc71520 said:

Edge has just been my secondary browser; nothing more.

Statcounter reports even Firefox  has more users than IE and Edge combined now  and over half the market belongs too Google Chrome  so for most I guess Firefox is there secondary browser.

 

 

Lol Microsoft may have  won the browser wars in 1990s. but in 2016 Microsoft browsers are dead  and that's not counting  mobile browsers .

 

With all O/S edge only score 1.42% 

 

[Sylence]