Safari is more energy-efficient than Chrome and Firefox on OS X

Re:Safari is more energy-efficient than Chrome and Firefox o... by phkn1 on Thursday July 30, 2015 @03:07PM (#9977221)

Safari on Yosemite also shows power usage per tab which is great for identifying rogue websites.

Also... TIL that some sites take more power to render than a 1080p stream!

This also of reinforces the argument for installing an ad blocker -- less elements to process on each page means less power used. µBlock is particularly promising as it's very lightweight.

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Re:Safari is more energy-efficient than Chrome and Firefox o... by Lerc on Thursday July 30, 2015 @03:42PM (#9977455)

> some sites take more power to render than a 1080p stream!

This is an interesting aspect of Optimisation. If video decoding were developed using similar standards to the bulk of software it would only be capable of displaying a slideshow.

Video gets massively optimised (at all levels) because the alternative is 'No Video'. It is a good demonstration of the gap between the performance of software and what it could be. Most software can get by being a little bit sluggish so we grumble and suffer but it is not a deal-breaker. What we buy with that performance hit is easier development.

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