A Chrome for Windows bug can drain a laptop's battery.
Is Chrome Sucking The Life Out Of Your Laptop's Battery? : Read more
Is Chrome Sucking The Life Out Of Your Laptop's Battery? : Read more
It's also because it can have a core working on each tab to render it instead 1 core doing the HTML rendering for all tabs like in FirefoxThat's bad, maybe that's the reason why Chrome is one of the fastest browers out there, since it consumes more energy, that is why it's faster.