I'm curious how much better Safari battery life is if you disable Flash in Chrome.
blog.getbatterybox.com/which-browser-
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safari battery life would be the same. You mean chrome? I would expect it to be some better, but not close the gap completely
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flash is certainly egregious, but a while back Chrome made decisions to optimize performance, prefetch, etc - comes at a cost
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Not prefetch. WebKit and Safari started prefetching the same time as Chrome. It was done in WebKit before the fork.
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Sounds like the wrong kind of optimization. Safari isn’t slow by any measure, and we still get good battery life.
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. : is right. This is all scheduling and graphics stack. OS X power use in graphics is hard to reason about.
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: several different ways to draw, massively different power characteristics. Chrome is switching method
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: for context, FF uses the same power-hungry GL paths Chrome does today
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: from what (little) I understand, OS X's GL drawing infra requires full upload every frame, very power hungry
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