Edge takes top spot in Microsoft browser battery life test (again)

Microsoft Edge may however be behind in the race when information technology comes to its share of the browser market, merely Microsoft'south latest ad attempts to evidence it can become the distance against Chrome and Firefox. Using Surface Books powered past the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Microsoft once again placed Edge head-to-caput with Chrome and Firefox to see which would come out on top in its battery life test (spoiler: it's Edge).

The test was conducted by streaming i video beyond all three browsers on identical devices until the battery died. According to Microsoft's results, Edge lasted 63 pct longer than Firefox and 19 percentage longer than Chrome. In terms of time, Border managed to go 16 hours and 8 minutes, while Firefox came in at 9 hours and 52 minutes. Chrome, meanwhile, hit 13 hours and 31 minutes.

It's worth noting that at that place are some caveats to these tests that will probably make them difficult to replicate in real-globe employ. According to Microsoft'southward methodology, the test was conducted on Windows ten build 16299, and a number of settings were tweaked to reflect a setup that it'southward hundred-to-one you'll run across actually in employ. These include enabling quiet hours, disabling Bluetooth and the ambient light sensor, and, perplexingly, setting the volume to mute. Nevertheless, the settings were applied to each device, so the test should reverberate a level playing field for each browser.

This isn't the first time Microsoft has released a battery life test like this; it released a similar video merely after the release of the Creators Update in April 2022. And both of these most recent tests largely repeat the results of withal another battery exam released in 2022. It's always salubrious to remain skeptical of showtime-party battery tests similar these, but battery life isn't the whole story when it comes to browsers. Ultimately, picking a browser involves weighing the pros and cons related to a range of personal preferences. And if you're on Windows ten S, well, yous have no option in the matter, anyway.

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