Nothing stops you from installing alternatives, either as your default browser or for other purposes. Edge is Microsoft’s new browser and replaces Internet Explorer 11, which is only provided for backwards compatibility with websites written for IE. That’s actually quite a change, and I suspect that Microsoft shaming Google over the past few years might have played a role, with Google working to make improvements to the browser market leader.As mentioned previously, Windows 10 already includes two browsers: Edge and Internet Explorer 11. And it claimed an incredible 47 percent battery life advantage over Chrome.īy April 2017, Microsoft was claiming that Edge provided 35 percent better battery life than Chrome when running in the Creators Update, or Windows 10 version 1703.Ī year later, the advantage has fallen to just 14 percent. In June 2016, Microsoft first touted battery life as a key advantage for Edge. I searched for my stories about Edge’s advantages over Chrome in previous versions to find out. But only barely, right? Doesn’t that seem smaller than was the case with previous Windows 10 releases? And a 14 percent advantage over Chrome is indeed a win. To be clear, what Microsoft is testing here is the battery life of the two top web browsers, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, compared to Microsoft Edge in the latest Windows 10 version, version 1803.

This experiment showed that battery life on a PC running Microsoft Edge lasts 98% longer than Mozilla Firefox and 14% longer than Google Chrome.” “The Microsoft Edge team wanted to find out. “What happens when three identical devices run different browsers?” the description of a Microsoft video posted to YouTube reads.

Left unsaid, however, is that the gap is closing. Microsoft Edge has retained its battery life advantage over competing browsers, the software giant claimed this week.

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