From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system
On 2021-02-20, Lewis <
g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:
In message <i9cpcgFg008U3@mid.individual.net> Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
That depends.
I often close Chrome and LyX via red dot, because I use them so often
but ones that I really want to close I CMD-Q(uit)...
Well, if you are using Chrome you do not care about your computers
battery or resources. Chrome is a horrible pig of an app, reminiscent
of the bad old days of Internet Exploder.
I'll never understand why so many people gleefully flock to Chrome.
Best Web Browsers That Conserve Battery Life on a Mac <
https://www.guidingtech.com/59385/battery-conserving-mac-browsers/>
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Safari beat all the other browsers on the Mac in terms of power
efficiency. In fact, it really wasn't even close. Some of the other
browsers had higher energy impacts without video than Safari did with
video.
While only having one tab open for Guiding Tech, Safari’s energy impact fluctuated between 0 and 3. At some points it got down as low to 0.2,
but generally hovered around 2. With a video playing, it fluctuated
between 10 and 20 but stayed around 12.
Safari has the best power efficiency out of any browser I tested. And
the convenient part about that is your Mac already has it installed.
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Chrome, on the other hand, is made by Google, a company that makes money
by selling information about its users to shady businesses that use its advertising networks. Google took Apple’s free WebKit (the free, open
source version of Safari) and renamed it Google Blink. Blink is what
powers Google Chrome and Google Chromium and Microsoft Edge. While
designing Blink, Google added a bunch of unnecessary bloatware on top of
it to attract users into using it. But all of that bloatware slows down
Chrome, Chromium, and Edge, and adds bugs glitches and security flaws.
Chrome is optimized to do one thing well: display targeted ads based on
your browsing behavior. Google is not focused on making Chrome work
well.
From the same article:
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Opera, Chrome and Firefox were all pretty close to each other with their scores. Generally speaking, with just Guiding Tech as the sole open tab,
they each had an energy impact of 10 to 15. Like Safari, they would
fluctuate too. Once again, when a YouTube video started playing in a
second tab, energy impacts jumped up to between 40 and 60 and would
fluctuate for all of them.
These scores are significantly higher than Safari’s scores and thus,
these browsers have more of a negative impact on battery life.
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JR
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