Microsoft Tests Claim Edge Browser Beats Competitors In Power Efficiency Tests

[alextheblue]

The Edge browser is really bad when you do things like go to community forums or have more than 5 tabs open. It screeches to a halt.

I would say that's an exaggeration. But it's definitely not king of the hill in speed tests. I'd rate it as "decent" overall. Good for a stock browser, and they're constantly working to improve it which is nice. For example they're adding swipe gestures in like IE has, which will help tablet users or anyone that uses a touchscreen device in tablet mode.

 

[Aart Bluestoke]

anyone do a fps or other type of performance measure... ie, how do you know know that it simply isn't a performance drop to avoid the cpu bumping to high frequency during rendering?

also, any chance that their "brows the web" included silver-light plugins or something that allow microsoft to have a bit better native integration?

 

[cats_Paw]

So... Its MS shouting that they are better?
That's cute.

 

[buzznut47]

I generally check once a week or so to see if Edge works yet. Inevitably it crashes within two minutes of launching it.
I have no idea how they got it to run long enough to test efficiency.

 

[MoxNix]

Moral of the story - Edge is so bad at everything useful all MS can do is brag about being best at something nobody cares about.

 

[nebun]

this just shows that Microsoft does not care about GPU implementation on their EDGE browser, when playing games online the graphics are very slow...it's a fact...now let's compare all these browsers with some flash games or html games and see how well it performs, or does not perform

 

[thundervore]

Im still waiting until the browser addons make there way to the normal folks who are not on the insider ring so I can install adblock plus and block all ads.

Well all ads except Taboola SMH

 

[Memhorder]

um there's way more mobile devices than there is PC plugged into the wall. A couple hours is a couple hours uptime

 

[clonazepam]

Only Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge on Windows, and Safari on Mac, support 1080p HTML5 player streams while Chrome, Firefox and Opera only streams up to 720p in quality.

Grabbed from a different article somewhere else on the 'net. Assuming its still accurate, which it should be, being published only 6 months ago, its the only reason I can think of why someone might choose Microsoft.

if it was 6 months ago i'm sure other browsers have caught up by now.

Screwed up the comment. I meant for Netflix specifically. Oops

 

[Serban13]

Too bad the other features of Windows 10 are killing the battery. My Lumia 640 had half the battery life in Windows 10 compared to Windows 8.1. Needless to say I am running Windows 8.1 now.

 

[wifiburger]

wow wow, Didn't realize Edge was so efficient, this will save hours on my laptop battery ! not !
garbage lies from Microsoft

 

[f-14]

it does, i've tried it, i used it once and it sucked so bad i never used it again, and it's used almost no power what so ever!

 

[falchard]

If you want to really save battery on Windows 10, turn off all the Cortana stuff. Once you do everything speeds back up. Cortana is doing a lot of things in the background mainly collecting data on you so it can intelligently react to certain situations. It's nice in theory but eats up power and resources. These shouldn't be a problem with a desktop, but may pose problems for mobile solutions.

 

[ralanahm]

Read and posted this on chrome, nexus... this is another example of Ms being way behind.

 

[jbo5112]

CLONAZEPAM,the problem with Chrome, Opera and Firefox not playing 1080p content is specific to Netflix content because Netflix blocks browsers that aren't the official OS default browser.

 

[jbo5112]

I remember back in the early days of the site, when Thom Pabst would take super-deep dives into hardware. After a few years, he was huge in getting the Intel PIII 1.13GHz chip recalled. People insulted his ability to build a computer because he claimed it was unstable, but apparently he was right. Intel pushed it early for bragging rights as beating AMD to break 1GHz, after being a bit humiliated by AMD getting to 1GHz first.

I miss the days when Tom's was good, and AMD was competitive, before Intel broke the law to undermine what should have been a HUGE payoff in development 64-bit chips. Intel got a sizable slap on the wrist, AMD couldn't fund R&D to compete against Core 2, Tom's became a publishing venue for Microsoft Marketing, and here we are.

 

[clonazepam]

I was tempted to address the first post with actual facts about rendering an entire library of content from one format to another that happened a few years ago, but the second post is so outrageous, I realize its not worth it.