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The reviews I saw said that using Chrome gets good better life, but if you want great battery life you need to use something like Safari. I switched to Safari

The reviews I saw said that using Chrome gets good better life, but if you want great battery life you need to use something like Safari. I switched to Safari a few years ago, and I couldn't be happier. Chrome's performance and battery life are atrocious. I only use Chrome when I need something specific from it.

gnicholas 6y ago
I saw that comment in a couple different places. Presumably Chrome is running through Rosetta 2, whereas Safari is native to the M1. I imagine once Chrome is available natively, performance will be somewhat better, though probably still not as good as Safari.
- zitterbewegung 6y ago
  IIRC Chrome is a battery hog / memory hog on all platforms. Am I wrong in this regard?
  - rowanG077 6y ago
    Afaik it's a memory hog but it doesn't really use more or less battery then other browsers.
    - dwighttk 6y ago
      so it uses more memory but not more battery?
      - Ericson2314 6y ago
        That's...not a contradiction?
- simonh 6y ago
  On the new machines yes, but none if the people you read about before today had AS machines, they were all comparing Chrome and Safari on Intel, so it’s unlikely that stays quiet will change once Chrone is native on AS.
  - gnicholas 6y ago
    I was referring to multiple reviews of new Apple hardware, just to clarify.
  - jychang 6y ago
    Actually, I think it will. The M1 chip takes a lot smaller proportion of power of the laptop to run (compared to say, the LCD, ssd, etc). If the new macbook air idles at 6W and runs chrome at 10W with no fan, people are barely gonna notice. That’s a big difference compared to an intel machine running chrome at 35+ watts.
florakel 6y ago
Google today published Chrome 87 with (supposedly) big memory and CPU usage improvements: https://9to5google.com/2020/11/17/chrome-87-mac-windows-stable/ https://9to5google.com/2020/11/17/chrome-87-mac-windows-stab... Also they started rolling out the first M1 optimized version of Chrome (but has been pulled since due to stability issues): https://9to5google.com/2020/11/17/chrome-mac-apple-silicon/ https://9to5google.com/2020/11/17/chrome-mac-apple-silicon/

gnicholas 6y ago

I saw that comment in a couple different places. Presumably Chrome is running through Rosetta 2, whereas Safari is native to the M1. I imagine once Chrome is available natively, performance will be somewhat better, though probably still not as good as Safari.

zitterbewegung 6y ago
IIRC Chrome is a battery hog / memory hog on all platforms. Am I wrong in this regard?
- rowanG077 6y ago
  Afaik it's a memory hog but it doesn't really use more or less battery then other browsers.
  - dwighttk 6y ago
    so it uses more memory but not more battery?
    - Ericson2314 6y ago
      That's...not a contradiction?
simonh 6y ago
On the new machines yes, but none if the people you read about before today had AS machines, they were all comparing Chrome and Safari on Intel, so it’s unlikely that stays quiet will change once Chrone is native on AS.
- gnicholas 6y ago
  I was referring to multiple reviews of new Apple hardware, just to clarify.
- jychang 6y ago
  Actually, I think it will. The M1 chip takes a lot smaller proportion of power of the laptop to run (compared to say, the LCD, ssd, etc). If the new macbook air idles at 6W and runs chrome at 10W with no fan, people are barely gonna notice. That’s a big difference compared to an intel machine running chrome at 35+ watts.

florakel 6y ago

Google today published Chrome 87 with (supposedly) big memory and CPU usage improvements: https://9to5google.com/2020/11/17/chrome-87-mac-windows-stable/ https://9to5google.com/2020/11/17/chrome-87-mac-windows-stab... Also they started rolling out the first M1 optimized version of Chrome (but has been pulled since due to stability issues): https://9to5google.com/2020/11/17/chrome-mac-apple-silicon/ https://9to5google.com/2020/11/17/chrome-mac-apple-silicon/