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Everyone says Chrome devastates Mac battery life, but does it? 36 hour test
Long time Birchtree readers know I love data, and love data even more when I can throw it into a graph. I’m also a fan of testing things that everyone generally agrees are true, but no one seems to have any data to back up. That brings us to
I initially tried a 1 hour testing session, but Apple silicon Macs are so efficient, it barely moved the needle on battery percentage. This took forever already, so I limited scope to finding out if Chrome used an absurd amount of extra energy compared to Safari – by some people’s measure, enough that it ought not be allowed to exist on iPhones and iPads. I certainly didn’t do this test as some sort of way to prove that what I think is my 4th favorite desktop browser (Arc, then Vivaldi, then Safari, then Chrome) is so great – I don’t even use it!
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