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Re:Firefox Nightly on macOS: decrease in power usage by a fa... by timsayshey on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @09:27AM (#20866263)
Just installed it. And had gmail running on it and Chrome at the same time. Firefox Nightly showed to be using significant power while Chrome was not. I think this still has a long way to go before I switch to Firefox both in terms of performance and dev tools.
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Re:Firefox Nightly on macOS: decrease in power usage by a fa... by fnordsensei on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @09:34AM (#20866304)
You're not the first to complain about the performance of Google property in non-Google browsers.

I'm not sure why it should be, or what it implies, but I've seen more than one person pointing out the difference.

Not being a Google user, I'm quite happy with the current Firefox performance, and delighted that Mozilla is finding even more room to improve.

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Re:Firefox Nightly on macOS: decrease in power usage by a fa... by givinguflac on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @09:36AM (#20866318)
“Web service designed to crush batteries when used outside of chrome uses a lot of power still.” Film at eleven.
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