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There’s nothing “magical”, but Safari uses a lot less battery than Chrome. Safari developers optimize for battery life whereas Chrome developers seem not to ca
by jacobolus 4y ago
There’s nothing “magical”, but Safari uses a lot less battery than Chrome.
Safari developers optimize for battery life whereas Chrome developers seem not to care about client-side resource use.
- native_samples 4y agoRight, yet, Chrome has an enormous number of Mac users. Apple argue that battery life is a topic so important it's worth banning competitors for but clearly when given the choice users disagree. There are other things more important to them.
- jacobolus 4y agoMy impression is that most computer users have a limited sense of which software applications are churning through battery, and instead just blame the computer vendor. That is, if Chrome churns through battery on a Mac laptop, the typical user is going to just think “Apple laptops have poor battery life”, never realizing that switching to Safari would make a significant difference.