Microsoft publishes the methods behind its Edge battery tests
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In mid-June, Microsoft published some results of its in-house battery life testing from streaming a video to Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera's eponymous web browser. In these tests, Microsoft's Internet Explorer replacement lasted nearly 7.5 hours-70% longer than playing the same video in Chrome. Microsoft didn't publish its testing methods, though.
Opera secured second place in Microsoft's testing, but the company made a point to challenge the opacity of Microsoft's methods , and it even went so far as to craft a battery-life testing video of its ...