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Give Safari a shot. For me, it increases battery by at least 25% vs. Firefox or Chrome with many tabs open, probably more like 50%+ sometimes. Cutting the Elec
by jacobolus 10y ago
Give Safari a shot. For me, it increases battery by at least 25% vs. Firefox or Chrome with many tabs open, probably more like 50%+ sometimes.
Cutting the Electron apps might also help a lot.
I can’t imagine having many terminals open takes any appreciable CPU, unless you’re using them to continuously run compilers or something.
You can also try reducing the display brightness, turning off bluetooth, and poking around in the Activity monitor to see what other processes are using lots of CPU time.
- leesalminen 10y agoSafari dev tools don't seem to be up to par with Chrome. Especially on the react.js front. I just can't bring myself to use one browser for work and another for personal.
- jacobolus 10y agoIt’s hardly fair to blame Apple when third-party browsers and other applications are battery hogs though.
- leesalminen 10y agoI do not blame them for this. I blame them for building an inferior web browser with substandard feature support just because they want to wall people into the App Store ecosystem. It does seem like they're changing and incorporating more JS features into the browser. Let's hope they keep up.
- jmduke 10y agoI want to use Safari, but its lack of developer tools (e.g. the React debugger console) make it a no-go except for light browsing.
- schappim 10y agoI actually do/did! I much prefer Safari for the iCloud Keychain syncing with the iPhone. (Apple actually stuffed thr keychain app up too recently where on the macs with touch bar keychain takes a few seconds to do a query). I have been a huge proponent of Safari but currently there is a real annoying bug where the URL/Search input won't register the "return/enter" key press for a URL or query. This happens once every 20 or so times and to get round it I need to close the window, reopen it and paste my query. I've nuked the caches and removed extensions to no avail.
- azinman2 10y agoThat annoys me too :/
- ChristianGeek 10y agoChanging focus to another app and then back to Safari fixes the bug too. Still a pain.
- schappim 10y agoI actually do/did! I much prefer Safari for the iCloud Keychain syncing with the iPhone. (Apple actually stuffed thr keychain app up too recently where on the macs with touch bar keychain takes a few seconds to do a query). I have been a huge proponent of Safari but currently there is a real annoying bug where the URL/Search input won't register the "return/enter" key press for a URL or query. This happens once every 20 or so times and to get round it I need to close the window, reopen it and paste my query. I've nuked the caches and removed extensions to no avail.