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Re:Browsers are essential and how operating systems are hold... by actionfromafar on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @07:28AM (#34707141)
On Mac, I find Safari also uses less battery than either Chrome or Firefox.

(I use Firefox anyway, because I like its features and I'm a zealot too, but if on battery without a charger nearby, I use Safari.)

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Re:Browsers are essential and how operating systems are hold... by trelane on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @08:23AM (#34707622)
Do they have secret APIs the rest of us plebes don't get?
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Re:Browsers are essential and how operating systems are hold... by nicoburns on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @08:43AM (#34707856)
No, they just focus on power consumption more than the other browsers (they also have the advantage of not needing to work cross-platform, making this easier). This is often why Safari is behind other browsers on features: a focus on quality of implementation of quantity of features.
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Re:Browsers are essential and how operating systems are hold... by JamesSwift on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @09:25AM (#34708408)
I also would want a source for that. At least in the mobile dev space, it has always been common practice for them to leverage private APIs to do things regular app devs cant.
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Re:Browsers are essential and how operating systems are hold... by nicoburns on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @10:34AM (#34709454)
> At least in the mobile dev space, it has always been common practice for them to leverage private APIs to do things regular app devs cant.

On mobile (iOS), yes. But power consumption comparisons tend to be on desktop (macOS) because the other browsers can't run on iOS at all. And I don't think Apple can enforce that API privacy on macOS because they unlike iOS they allow apps to be installed from outside the App Store.

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Re:Browsers are essential and how operating systems are hold... by selectodude on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:03AM (#34709950)
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2022/10/10/improving-firefox-respons...

Firefox has constantly been sussing out private APIs that Safari uses to improve battery life on macOS.

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Re:Browsers are essential and how operating systems are hold... by trelane on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @08:48AM (#34707932)
Source?
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