Opera hits back at Microsoft over browser battery life tests

Jun23

by Sindy Cator on June 23, 2016 at 9:27 am

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Browsers, chrome, Edge, firefox, opera

Earlier this week, Microsoft showed that its Edge browser consumed less battery life on laptops than rivals like Chrome, Opera and Firefox. The company claimed to get between 36 and 53 percent more battery life with Edge in its comparison test. But Opera, which introduced a power saving mode in its browser last month, isn’t convinced. The company said that Microsoft hadn’t revealed its test methodology and as such, it wasn’t able to replicate the experiment. It’s now compared battery life tests of its own and published both the steps and the results, and found Opera to come out on…