Chrome eats up to 70% more battery power than Edge browser, Microsoft claims

Do you use Microsoft Edge, the default browser included in Windows 10? Some people have used it once, to go get another browser version and download it. But if you want your laptop to last longer before you need to plug it in, then use Edge for your surfing – or so claims Microsoft.

Microsoft really wants you to use to Edge and this time, before the Anniversary Update rolls out, the company is crowing about how Edge uses less battery than any other browser.

Microsoft backed up Edge power-saving capability claims by three separate tests. The first measured browser power consumption in a controlled lab environment. The second involved super-snooping on users, worded as “real-world energy telemetry” collected “from millions of Windows 10 devices.” The third comes along with a time-lapse video of four identical laptops streaming the same video via four different browsers until the battery dies.

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