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    R2, what is the best browser for battery life?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by organisedrhyme, Mar 19, 2011.

  1. organisedrhyme

    organisedrhyme Notebook Enthusiast

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    As topic says. What is the best browser out there for battery life on an r2? How does ie9 do? Etc...

    Cheers!
     
    organisedrhyme, Mar 19, 2011
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  2. sayanranu

    sayanranu Newbie

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    I don't know about the best since I don't use IE at all. But with Chrome. the discharge rate is always lower than Firefox.
     
    sayanranu, Mar 19, 2011
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    g1xx3r Notebook Enthusiast

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    +1 for Chrome..just my preference.
     
    g1xx3r, Mar 19, 2011
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  4. HighLife420

    HighLife420 Notebook Guru

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    im just guessing, but the one that takes up the least amount of memory or resources would prob be best for pure battery life.

    Its up to you to see which one does =)

    If im not mistaken, chrome is slightly faster load times, but it uses more memory than Fox or IE. I remember reading that somewhere not to long ago.
     
    HighLife420, Mar 19, 2011
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    DeeVu That Compsci/Psych Major

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    I'm siding towards chrome. Especially with IE9s release.
     
    DeeVu, Mar 19, 2011
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    Chrome, of course ;)
     
    Voodooi, Mar 19, 2011
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    Chrome, and it's very nice on small screens.
     
    trikan, Mar 19, 2011
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  8. thegh0sts

    thegh0sts Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    +1 for chrome because i use it though the way it is programmed to have each tab as a separate process task may or may not be as power hungry on the battery as having all tabs under 1 process task like firefox.
     
    thegh0sts, Mar 19, 2011
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    I use Chrome but a lot of people starting to use Opera now
     
    MasivB, Mar 19, 2011
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    I use Opera, best browser I ever have used. With opera turbo mode on auto and using my phone as router on the road. Its dead quick and uses little resources as long as you keep your tabs under control
     
    M11Ash, Mar 20, 2011
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    I use Opera, mainly because it's fast and I am a very impatient person. :smile:
     
    Bily42, Mar 20, 2011
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    I'm not trying to start a fight, but this whole thread seems a little redundant. I mean, you're looking for a browser that makes the best use of battery life, but you'll be using the browser while doing one of the more battery intensive things out there - downloading gobs of data over a wireless radio connection.
     
    froogle, Mar 20, 2011
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    You have to take in account that certain web pages will use the 335 card over the intel hd card unless you force java/chrome/and misc to use the intel card. So it just depends.
     
    BranMuffin, Mar 20, 2011
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    so, given identical usage in the same sequence between FF vs. Chrome vs. IE vs. everything else, you think that there will be a real difference in battery life? and by real, i mean more than ~20 minutes over a full battery cycle? i find that hard to believe.
     
    frescagod, Mar 20, 2011
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    Firefox is extremely configurable, depending on your tunings your experience could be different. Chrome also can be configured to use more/less RAM by using parameter --memory-model=high (medium or low).
    Your battery life will depend on how many extensions you have (both for firefox and chrome), especially ones that regularly autocheck smth (news, mail, weather), bla-bla-bla. Under heavy use differences would be marginal.

    Each time I perform comparison benchmarking of browser speed, chrome-dev beats everything else.

    About Opera. This browser is very popular in Russia. However last generations of opera are not stable enough. Opera is useful only while using mobile data access using Turbo feature.

    The best battery-saver browser is elinks
     
    DDriver, Mar 21, 2011
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    I forgot to add ...use Chrome AND ...get AdBlockPlus.
     
    Voodooi, Mar 22, 2011
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  17. namaiki

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    Yup, whatever browser you use, just make sure that it doesn't automatically turn on the nVidia GPU or you just might halve battery life.
     
    namaiki, Mar 22, 2011
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