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Google to 'Dramatically' Improve Chrome Impact on Mac Battery Life
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That has been my thought, but I must admit I never really thought about Edge being available on my mobile devices as well as my PC/Mac so I may play around with that and see how it works.
But Microsoft Edge is a better Chrome than Chrome itself, with all of the benefits (extensions, features, compatibility) - as many have already pointed out here.
You're be doing yourself (and your battery) a disservice by not giving Edge a shot, if you must stick with Chrome-based browsers.
I can't believe someone disagreed with this - it's exactly right and what everyone should do.
Same here. Almost completely switched over to Edge now and I really dig it. Safari as backup and Iridium is somewhere around my computer just for giggles.
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I've noticed this too with the FB app as well as the Instagram app. Even with very light use and just scrolling (no posting or watching videos) it consumes up to 30% of my previous 10 day battery stats. Also, why do they cache 3x as much data as the size of the app itself
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This is what Google should be afraid of: https://www.wsj.com/articles/quit-c...rowsers-for-you-and-your-computer-11594558801
I didn't know about this, but it doesn't surprise me. Something advertised that hard isn't going to be legitimate. I even heard FM radio hosts talking about Brave, which meant I wasn't going to try it.
Anyway, a single instance of messing with URLs is worthy of banishment. Everyone should uninstall Brave.
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I expect the engine still consumes more power than Safari does, in part because Safari is built so closely to the OS. It's hard to beat that.
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Give Microsoft Edge a try. The battery usage is significantly lower than Chrome ... and CPU/Memory management in general is light years better.
I'm still giving out the reminder about FIREFOX: superior that any Chromium-based product (in my opinion), much lighter than Chrome, much faster than Chrome, multi-platform everywhere, highly stable, and the best security/privacy features - once you try the Facebook container, you'll feel naked surfing without it and the other types of sandbox containers!
Whichever browser you choose, be sure to add-on the Ublock Origin extension, and configure it properly for your needs.
Whichever browser you choose, be sure to add-on the Ublock Origin extension, and configure it properly for your needs.
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I might be mistaken, but I think we actually have Google to thank for this. The success of Chrome knocking IE off the top place, is what forced the others to come into line with standards, or find that they have a browser that no one supports with their websites.
Very good points. If you are a multi operating system person Firefox would be the way to go. I am fully invested and luckily so in the Apple Ecosystem, as such its safari for me. "It just "sometimes" works" ..
Yes, now instead of sites only pandering to IE and only tested to work in IE we now have sites that only work in Chrome because it's the only browser web developers want to use. I wouldn't thank Google for it because all we've done is replace IE with Chrome and the problem of sites that only work with one browser still exists. Google did at least bring a cross platform browser though that's a side effect of forking from Apple's WebKit which itself forked from Konqueror's KHTML engine.
I don't understand what you're complaining about. Chrome follows standards. IE did it's own thing with various things, which created a nightmare for developers. So yeah, it's super nice, as a developer, to simply target your development to work on Chrome. Admittedly, Babel's existence has massively simplified the problem, you can simply write in ES6+ and Babel does all the translation to crappy old browsers for you.
Microsoft also seem to listen – I reported that Edge had a missing separator above the ”Services” menu item in the Edge app menu (right next to the Apple menu when Edge is the front most application) and got feedback that they were looking into it and while it took some time (about two months I think) the separator is there now as it should.
They are listening extensively to everyone and have mentioned that regarding Edge. They are trying to make it the best browser available and they're on their way to doing just that.Microsoft also seem to listen – I reported that Edge had a missing separator above the ”Services” menu item in the Edge app menu (right next to the Apple menu when Edge is the front most application) and got feedback that they were looking into it and while it took some time (about two months I think) the separator is there now as it should.
Yet I still run into sites that only work in Chrome and the answer to the question is "just use Chrome". Previous employers I've worked with had "Firefox Friday" to get web devs out of Chrome to at least Firefox. I'm complaining about the symptom of the same problem: one browser is dominant and the sites are developed and tested on only one browser leaving bugs on those sites for users of other browsers.
On the subject of standards it will be interesting to see if Edge now counts as an implementation for the purposes of defining the standard since it's Chromium based. I'd hope not but there would be a certain irony there.
After reading some of the people recommending Edge, I've tried it exclusively for the past few days. The browser works great, except for the incredibly annoying bug where it keeps restoring deleted bookmarks across all of my devices. Some of the bookmarks I have not used in years so I am not sure where they are cached but I'm about to end this experiment. A Google search shows lots of people experiencing the same things and none of the suggestions have fixed it. Back to Chrome I guess...
Does it only work on Chrome because it was non-standard? Or because only Chrome had implemented that standard?
Sometimes it's new functionality in Chrome or differences in implementations, sometimes it's layout quirks between the different browsers (slight differences of opinion on how overflow works was a recent one). Ultimately you need two browsers to sort of agree on what the implementation looks like before it becomes a standard though that might have changed since I last looked at the W3C process.
I want to support Firefox, but it so poorly optimized for Mac. It uses non-native UI frameworks (notice how the contextual menu says light even in dark mode), doesn't support smooth or rubber band scrolling, and has that horrific zoom search bar.
It DOES support 4K YouTube though. I don't like how Edge installs a package rather than just dragging the application like other browsers, but I think Edge with replace Chrome for my YouTube/Hulu/Neflix browser.
I use Safari for everything else.