Microsoft edge consumes 42% less battery than chrome

Microsoft has published on the official YouTube channel of Microsoft Edge a video that has caused quite controversy. In the video, Microsoft tests the battery consumption of its Edge browser on a laptop and compares them with other famous browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera. The results are overwhelming, Microsoft Edge consumes 42% less battery than Google Chrome.

Microsoft Edge browser surprises with its low consumption in laptops

Four Surface Book laptops with the same technical characteristics and drivers were used to make this comparison. To determine the battery consumption with the different browsers, a YouTube video was left playing in full screen, which can be said to be quite demanding on battery consumption.

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The results have been excellent for the Edge browser, Google Chrome consumes 70% more battery, Mozilla Firefox 43% more and Opera 17%.

Exact times (hours / minutes / seconds):

Chrome: 4:19:50.

Firefox: 5:09:30.

It operates: 6:18:33.

Edge: 7:22:07.

Let's remember that Microsoft Edge is a browser that is only available in Windows 10, so if you have a laptop with this operating system, the option of using this browser can be highly recommended for battery saving, after all it does exactly the same thing as the rest of the options that today are more used like Firefox or Chrome.

Laboratory power consumption tests have shown that Microsoft Edge maximizes power savings in daily activities efficiently. Compared to Chrome, Firefox and Opera, Microsoft's browser showed that it consumes far fewer resources than its competitors, as seen in the following graph.

Google Chrome consumes 70% more battery than Edge

The controversy behind this comparison published by Microsoft is precisely that it is published by Microsoft and it is not a study carried out independently, so there is always the suspicion that it is manipulated to give advantage to your own browser.