Microsoft once again boasts of edge energy efficiency

It has been a long time since Microsoft has shown that laptop battery life is of the utmost importance. That is why the company's greatest efforts in its Edge browser seem focused on maximizing energy efficiency.

Edge shines again in energy efficiency

Microsoft has used three Surface Book computers to showcase the benefits of its Edge browser in energy efficiency, all of which have been running on Windows 10 build 16299. The test consisted of calculating the duration of the battery of the equipment playing HTML5 video in full screen with the most popular browsers of today, that is, Edge, Chrome, Firefox and Opera.

Microsoft Edge has been shown as the most efficient browser with the use of energy by offering a battery life of 16 hours and 41 minutes, this result represents 29% more time than Chrome, 40% more than Opera and 79 % more than Firefox which has been shown to be the least efficient of all.

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The test has been carried out in the same conditions on all platforms, although a methodology that is not very representative of the actual use has been used since the volume was muted and the Bluetooth was deactivated, as well as the location and the ambient light sensor.

There is no doubt that an excellent job has been done with Edge, although the virtues of a browser go far beyond its energy efficiency when playing multimedia content on a platform and with a specific codec.

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