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While this article is about Windows, the situation is very different on Macs, where Safari completely trounces Chrome 36 in terms of battery life, but also rend

While this article is about Windows, the situation is very different on Macs, where Safari completely trounces Chrome 36 in terms of battery life, but also rendering performance and UI responsiveness.

batmanthehorse 12y ago
Are you aware of any tests confirming this, or is it just anecdotal?
- lobster_johnson 12y ago
  Mostly anecdotal. It comes up on Reddit pretty often [1], for example this [2] discussion. According to this [3] article, OS X will actually warn about Chrome using too much power, though I haven't seen or heard about that personally. [1] http://www.reddit.com/user/5HT-2a/m/machelp/search?q=Chrome+%28CPU+OR+battery+OR+hot+OR+heat%29&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all http://www.reddit.com/user/5HT-2a/m/machelp/search?q=Chrome+... [2] http://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/2d2lim/a_thoughtwarning_about_chrome_for_mac/ http://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/2d2lim/a_thoughtwarning.... [3] http://www.forbes.com/sites/ianmorris/2014/07/21/google-will-address-battery-problems-raised-by-my-recent-story/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/ianmorris/2014/07/21/google-will...
- bendyorke 12y ago
  I'm not sure of any official tests, but I often keep Activity Monitor open, and I've noticed Chrome using on average 2x more CPU. Plus, that's excluding the occasional "Google Chrome Helper" that tries to use 95+% of the CPU randomly (even when the app is in the background). Not that I'm claiming that this is proof that Safari is better than Chrome, but in my experience it uses a fraction of the CPU and gets the same job done.
  - pohl 12y ago
    The "Energy Impact" and "Avg. Energy Impact" columns (also in Activity Monitor) are also helpful for this.