14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft Edge browser is projected to receive some exciting updates in a few weeks, when the Anniversary Update goes live, including extension support, but in the meantime, the software giant keeps praising the app to ensure faster adoption once all these features go live.
Recently, the software giant has published some benchmarks to show that Edge browser offers longer battery life than any other rival, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera, and today the company has detailed these tests to show how exactly the new Windows 10 browser outclasses the competition.
What’s very interesting is that Microsoft claims that not only is Microsoft Edge more power efficient, but it also provides higher quality video because websites often serve it higher resolution and bitrate video than in the case of Opera, Firefox, and Google Chrome.
“The fact that Microsoft Edge received 1080p content in our power test means it actually ran a somewhat higher power draw than it otherwise would have playing 720p content like the other browsers. Microsoft Edge provided the highest quality content and also delivered the longest battery life,” Microsoft explained.
Higher quality video for Edge
In one case mentioned in Microsoft’s lengthy blog post, the company explains that Edge received the 1080p version of the video with a maximum bitrate of 7500 while Opera 38, Firefox 46, and Chrome 51 got the same video but in 720p and 4420 bitrate.
Microsoft also goes into technical details to explain how Edge actually outclassed the competition and obtained such impressive results, adding that power-saving features are available to all the other browsers, but vendors need to optimize performance on Windows devices. Edge, on the hand, comes with all these optimizations built-in, so everything is running at full speed.
Microsoft Edge is the default Windows 10 browser replacing Internet Explorer on both PCs and mobile devices, and the app is projected to receive a major update on August 2, including extension support and other significant new features.
