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Re:Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test by cptskippy on Thursday June 23, 2016 @02:15PM (#11963178)
His point is that only one of the browsers was using an ad blocker so they were rendering different content because one rendered ads and the other did not.
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Re:Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test by zeta0134 on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:11PM (#11963621)
Oh, I totally missed the part where Opera has the ad blocker turned on by default. Ignore my rambling then; my sleepy brain thought he was talking about two browsers that both had different ad blockers installed.
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Re:Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test by bialpio on Thursday June 23, 2016 @04:27PM (#11964052)
Not sure if Opera has it on by default - all they say is that it is build-in so that somehow makes it okay to use it and compare apples to oranges :)

If I understand both tests correctly, Opera ran with adblock and battery saver enabled (those are apparently not default settings), versus Edge without adblock, on sites which supposedly are ad-heavy - this will bias the results towards browser with adblock enabled.

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Re:Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test by cptskippy on Thursday June 23, 2016 @11:59PM (#11966228)
Exactly, it's like saying your bus with no passengers gets better gas mileage than your competitors bus with 60 passengers.
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