Of course all the laptop users want to save battery life and
use their laptops for longer time, both to complete their works and for
entertainment purposes.
During this time, there are many tips and tricks to save
battery life. The most common is to lower the screen brightness. This method is
quite effective, not just for smartphones and tablets, but also for laptops.
However, there seems to be a simpler way to solve this
problem. For the MacBook users, one way to save battery life is by using the
default browser of operating system, not Chrome, not Firefox, but Safari.
Gbatteries, a company that develops power bank for MacBook
named Battery Box, recently did a fairly intensive testing related to the
significance of browser selection towards MacBook battery life. The goal is to
see which browser that's wasting the battery life, and which one that can help
to improve the battery life.
The result? Regardless of its popularity, it turns out that
Chrome is the most wasteful of MacBook battery. The difference is quite far if
compared to Safari. If you use Safari, you can get up to 1 hour extra battery
life.
Safari itself is actually not a bad browser. Chrome does
have a myriad of extensions with a variety of functions, but Safari is also the
same. So, why should use another browser if the default browser of MacBook can
help to save battery consumption? Unless you need an extension that's only
available in Chrome, then the use of Chrome is unavoidable.
If you are interested in seeing the details of the
Gbatteries team's test results, you can visit the Battery Box blog. You can see
a number of tables related to power consumption of each browser when used for
specific activities, such as writing emails, access social media or watch
YouTube videos.