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Which Browser Will Make Your Laptop’s Battery Last Longer?

By Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO. Monday, April 2, 2012 7:46:47 PM

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Do you have a laptop or netbook with average or poor battery lifetime? If that’s the case, you might want to use a browser that's able to take advantage of the power saving features included with Windows 7 or Windows 8.

The website 7 Tutorials tested all the major browsers and had some interesting results - If they were to pick the winners, they would be Internet Explorer and Opera according to the tests they ran. Read the full article to get more details about their test procedures and results.

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Comments

Charles SchlossChas4 # Monday, April 2, 2012 7:54:43 PM

"if you want a mix between browsing performance and battery lifetime, your best choice is Opera"

Yep, works well

Abhinavdecodedthought # Monday, April 2, 2012 8:02:15 PM

Originally posted by Chas4:

Yep, works well

praetor87 # Monday, April 2, 2012 9:26:15 PM

Lynx.

Tamil # Tuesday, April 3, 2012 12:25:43 AM

http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Good.gif -

Muneer mha2999 # Tuesday, April 3, 2012 2:44:18 AM

d4rkn1ght # Tuesday, April 3, 2012 3:07:34 AM

Enoch 'Robot Boy' Appiah Junioridjunior # Tuesday, April 3, 2012 8:45:37 AM

Opera has always been the best.

Siam Sabbirjorjy27 # Tuesday, April 3, 2012 11:03:36 AM

So Opera is one the most power efficient web browsers out there! They should add this to their "Opera features" page i think!

MFINANGA, IBRAHIM KHALIFA MCHAPISHAJI # Thursday, April 5, 2012 4:12:00 PM

OPERA FULLSTOPS!

Cutting Spoonhellspork # Monday, April 9, 2012 5:40:43 AM

I knew this for a long time using a single-core Atom netbook. Opera could still handle more than 100 tabs, and battery life was pretty darn good. The rest were TERRIBLE.