Browser Power Consumption Compared 274
theweatherelectric writes "Over on the IE Blog they've posted a power consumption comparison of the five major browsers. They write: 'Power consumption is an important consideration in building a modern browser and one objective of Internet Explorer 9 is to responsibly lead the industry in power requirements. The more efficiently a browser uses power the longer the battery will last in a mobile device, the lower the electricity costs, and the smaller the environment impact. While power might seem like a minor concern, with nearly two billion people now using the Internet the worldwide implications of browser power consumption are significant.'"
Re:Efficiency Features (Score:4, Informative)
Use the HTML entity > to get >, < for <, and so on. Slashdot accepts most common HTML entities [w3schools.com], but alas—not unicode.
Re:Special characters (Score:4, Informative)
Since when could slashdot not show a greater than symbol?
Um... when did Slashdot support greater-than characters in comments? Try the HTML entity, > (>). You may also be interested in less-than (<) and ampersand (&). Others can be found here [w3schools.com].
Re:Tail wagging the dog? (Score:5, Informative)
Odd argument (Score:4, Informative)
Anandtech: [anandtech.com]
Bar graphs aren't zeroed (Score:5, Informative)
Possting anonymously not to whore karma.
Re:Tail wagging the dog? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Tail wagging the dog? (Score:4, Informative)
LCDs are slightly more efficient at white [scientificamerican.com]; in an LCD, the backlight is typically white and the pixels determine which colour is let through, so for black the pixels need to block the light coming through. The difference is only just passing statistical significance at 6%.
Note however that this isn't true of AMOLED [wikipedia.org] screens.
But IE9 runs only on bloated Windows... (Score:3, Informative)