Matt BirchlerSep 15, 2024
Everyone says Chrome devastates Mac battery life, but does it? I tested for 36 hours to find out. https://birchtree.me/blog/everyone-says-chrome-devastates-mac-battery-life-but-does-it-i-tested-for-36-hours-to-find-out/
Everyone says Chrome devastates Mac battery life, but does it? I tested for 36 hours to find out.

Long time Birchtree readers know I love data, and love data even more when I can throw it into a graph. Iā€™m also a fan of testing things that everyone generally agrees are true, but no one seems to have any data to back up. That brings us to

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@matt This is an awesome test, and an awesome writeup! šŸ‘

I wrote a similar power consumption benchmark tool for Android web browsers recently - if you're interested, I posted about it here: https://fosstodon.org/@mbestavros/112604246071206076

The small spoiler is that there ARE meaningful power consumption differences, especially on different types of devices! It was really fun finding that out.

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I've got something cool to share! Sometime last year, I found myself wondering: "how much battery do #Firefox and #Chrome consume on #android?" I couldn't find a good answer. So I wrote a tool to test them myself! And the results are fascinating. https://github.com/mbestavros/browser-power-hour

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