The other browsers being the competition. Chrome, Firefox and Opera. Redmond has highlighted new improvements for Microsoft Edge, the company’s latest web browser.
Available exclusively on Windows 10.
The software titan is convinced that the new solution has what it takes to beat its rivals when it comes to battery life on mobile devices. In fact, according to the company, Edge is way ahead of the competition in this regard.
Microsoft reveals that these power consumption tests have been conducted in a controlled lab environment, and are then combined with the real-world energy telemetry data from millions of Windows 10 devices.
And they confirm that users can simply browse longer with Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 devices than say, Chrome, Firefox and Opera on the same hardware.
VIDEO The technology giant hooked up a Surface Book to power monitoring equipment and then measured actual power usage during typical activities in these browsers.
These included browsing popular websites, scrolling, opening new tabs, watching videos, and all that.
The results showed that Edge is a more energy efficient browser on Windows 10, and ended up saving anywhere from 36% to 53% more battery life to pull through the tasks. To top it off, these laboratory tests were mirrored in the aggregated telemetry from millions of Windows 10 devices.
Microsoft went into greater detail on this in another post today, while confirming that it is working to boost the energy efficiency of Edge even further with improvements.
Improvements that will roll out with the upcoming Anniversary Update for the operating system, and will include more efficient background tasks, a more optimized user interface for Edge, better Windows networking, as well as running Flash in a separate process.
Good going by the development team, here.
Hopefully, usage of Microsoft’s new web browser picks up, thanks to these and other improvements.
source:windows10update 
