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Re:Firefox Nightly on macOS: decrease in power usage by a fa... by nusbit on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @07:58AM (#20865670)
Anyone knows how this compares to chrome?
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Re:Firefox Nightly on macOS: decrease in power usage by a fa... by Vinz_ on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @08:05AM (#20865707)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522#c45 Linked in the Twitter thread.
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Re:Firefox Nightly on macOS: decrease in power usage by a fa... by Peej255 on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @08:05AM (#20865709)
It's in the link. The decreases in power usage put it on par with Chrome.
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Re:Firefox Nightly on macOS: decrease in power usage by a fa... by 4ad on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @08:43AM (#20865930)
So, still terrible then?

The reason I use Safari is because Chrome is unbelievably power-hungry. I didn't know Firefox was even worse.

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Re:Firefox Nightly on macOS: decrease in power usage by a fa... by nicoburns on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @09:13AM (#20866145)
Yes, compared to Safari. The Safari engineering is very impressive! I think there is quite a bit more to come on the Firefox side though, so hopefully they'll close the gap.
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Re:Firefox Nightly on macOS: decrease in power usage by a fa... by sgt on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @08:53AM (#20865985)
Same, I switched to Safari a couple of years ago. I was initially hesitant, because I used the developer tools in Chrome quite a bit. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Safari developer tools is very mature, and in some ways better than Chrome.
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