chrome effect on MBP battery life

[kalster]

I have an early 2011 MBP 13". I have noticed that using chrome reduces the battery life considerably. Has anyone else faced this. While safari is fine it is not as useful as chrome but seems like using it gets me much better battery life

 

[Spineshank]

Ive never noticed. Been using chrome since I got my MBP in 2010 so I cant compare it to Safari usuage.

 

[dagamer34]

If you are to believe Apple PR, Safari uses far less power than Chrome according to WWDC 2013 keynote.

 

[TheStu]

If you are to believe Apple PR, Safari uses far less power than Chrome according to WWDC 2013 keynote.

That's what happens when you control the whole stack, you can use private (or maybe public) APIs and special tricks to ensure that sort of thing.

 

[kamikazekyle]

On my 2011 15" MBP, Chrome triggers the dedicated GeForce video card all the time, even on battery power, unless I use GFXCard Status to force it to integrated only. Safari sticks to the IGP. I haven't tried disabling GPU accelerated rendering in Chrome yet to see if it makes a difference. Also note that if you run any Chrome extensions in the background (eg: Astrid), it'll still keep a Chrome instance launched and consequently still force the dedicated video card to activate.

 

[tim Paul]

Safari uses less power than Chrome. Now that Apple has made it clear that felines are on their way out with OS X Mavericks, the company showed off big improvements to the speed and performance of the next-generation Safari web browser that comes along with it.