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    Interesting: how browsers affect battery life (safari sucks big time)

    http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=3636

    Certainly a different take on benchmarking browsers (which has all got very pointless of late given the marginal differences).
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    Re: Interesting: how browsers affect battery life (safari sucks big time)

    turn off flash ftw.

    seriously its a pain in the arse, do you want to sacrifice so much of your CPU time, bandwidth and even the you time spent waiting on a netbook

    (and yes, we all know safari is a pile of ****)
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    Re: Interesting: how browsers affect battery life (safari sucks big time)

    Bloated software consumes more energy, who'd have guessed?
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    Re: Interesting: how browsers affect battery life (safari sucks big time)

    If bloat = more cpu cycles yes - does it always? FF isn't exactly light on it's feet now - and remember the focus is on getting 8ms faster rendering of your javascript.

    Apple just can't write windows apps period - and in the case of safari it's probably some horrible emulation layer kludge that's making it so awful (seriously, a windows application that looks like a mac app? doh!)
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    Re: Interesting: how browsers affect battery life (safari sucks big time)

    Also don't forget that battery life is effected by the very instructions too. Some consume more powers than others.

    I wouldn't want to describe it simply as bloat, as bloat people tend to think of as a memory type issue.

    I suspect these are down to inefficencies in proccessing, rather than just memory issues.
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