Microsoft Edge Offers Superior Battery Efficiency Over Chrome and Firefox, says Microsoft

Less than a quarter of Windows 10 users utilize Microsoft’s browser, Edge, despite an ongoing surge in browser competition – a fact that has not deterred Microsoft from asserting the supremacy of their product. Evidently, other browser developers are also keen on expanding their user base on the Windows platform. Opera, responding to user grievances about intrusive advertisements, [introduced an ad-blocker](https://www.techbooky.com/post-title/opera-introduces-ad-blocking-feature-bid-make-pages-load-faster/) to expedite web page loading.

Microsoft isn’t being left behind in the pursuit of increasing usage for their browser. To back their claim that Edge outperforms notable competitors such as Chrome and Firefox, Microsoft [unveiled results of a series of tests](https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/06/20/more-battery-with-edge/) conducted by their team within their controlled environment.

## The Tests and Results

According to the tests, Microsoft’s Edge allows users to browse longer than any other major browser, indicating that it surpasses Chrome, Firefox, and Opera in power efficiency. This was established by connecting a Surface Book to a specially-designed power monitoring system while carrying out typical browsing activities on Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera.

These activities were automated to ensure consistency across all browsers and included routine tasks such as opening websites, scrolling through articles, watching videos, and launching new tabs for each task. Popular platforms like Facebook, Google, YouTube, Amazon, Wikipedia, etc., were chosen for the test.

While a picture is worth a thousand words, this particular graph goes a long way in underlining this assertion.

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The results revealed that Edge excelled Chrome and Firefox by up to 70 percent in battery efficiency during tasks such as video streaming and website access. For instance, using Edge to access sites like Facebook yielded power savings between 30 to 35 percent. This data comes as Microsoft approaches the one-year anniversary of the [Windows 10 release](https://www.techbooky.com/post-title/windows-10-is-finally-here-and-heres-what-you-need-to-knowdo-about-it/).

However, it’s not just about battery life. Speed is another crucial factor. Personal experiences and anecdotal reports suggest that Edge struggles to match Chrome and Firefox in page loading speed, with some sites reportedly not loading properly on Edge. Copious memory consumption has also been flagged as a concern.

## The Opera Strategy

Opera [introduced its ad-blocking feature](https://www.techbooky.com/post-title/opera-introduces-ad-blocking-feature-bid-make-pages-load-faster/) ostensibly to speed up website loading times, inciting sharp rebuke from the likes of The New York Times, which launched its own solution to block content display on such browsers.


Opera’s test results, displayed above, claim a 90 percent quicker web-page load time than Internet Explorer and a 45 percent improvement over Chrome.

Technology Writer, [Paul Balo](https://www.techbooky.com/post-title/author/pbalo/), also contributed to this report. His insights gleaned from first-hand use and user reports offer essential counterpoints to the test results, underscoring that the quest for the superior browser is far from over.