Browser with best battery life?

[Aggravated Salmon]

I want to have 2 main browsers in my laptop and use the main one when i'm plugged in and the other one when i'm on battery.

My main browser is Firefox and I have the full fat load of extensions which would use more power.

And Firefox is known to have bad battery life anyways.

Edge would usually immediately be my secondary browser but they recently converted to Chromium and I don't know how that affected its battery life.

I have dual boot so recommend me one for Debian Linux and Windows 10?

Cheers

[StrayGuitarist]

I primarily use Opera to great results, it has a built-in adblocker, and supports a decent amount of extensions (That is, if you'd even want to use any). It works well on Windows 10, and I'm pretty sure it has a version for Debian. Using it on even lower-end laptops usually yields better battery life and smoother performance than Chrome, at least for me, so I'd give it a try.

[RejZoR]

Opera is very underrated browser. And so is Brave. Everyone raving about stupid Chrome and I'm always scratching my head why would ANYONE ever pick Chrome instead of Firefox, Opera or Brave...

[Stormseeker9]

6 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

Opera is very underrated browser. And so is Brave. Everyone raving about stupid Chrome and I'm always scratching my head why would ANYONE ever pick Chrome instead of Firefox, Opera or Brave...

I used to use Firefox back in the day, but for years have used chrome now. On windows or OSX.

 

Love chrome - never any issues 

[TRraven]

i may be wrong but try duck duck go browser, they block as much privacy and background request as possible only sending the minimum amount of data possible

edit pc browser not made yet 

 

check these out https://mashtips.com/best-lightweight-browsers-for-windows/

just google lightweight web browerser and also i would suggest a personal power plan if your looking at getting more batterylife. Go to edit power plan settings in windows click change advanced power settings scroll to the bottom to processor power management. You'll have to get used to this but open maximum processor state and anytime your on battery manually a just this down from 100% to something you feel is fast enough for web browsing. (note if you do have a laptop you set a battery specific max %. Just remember if need extra horse power while on battery to go back and change it same for wifi)   my laptop has an i5 8400 i just put the max processor state at like 50-30% when im watching movies in the car or what not. When your plugged in you gotta remember to go and switch the setting back to a 100 though. Also changing wireless adpater settings to say low power saving can go along way as well if you want to keep wifi on. 

 

 

 

 

[191x7]

Opera and Edge were using the least power, but that was before Opera switched to Chromium and I don't know how it is now.

internet Explorer 11 maybe?

[Labeled]

Edge lasts 2 hours longer for me on my laptop than chrome, and that's with multiple browsers tabs and videos playing on a portion of the screen. The edge canary build has been pretty good so far as well surprisingly.

 

I think edge plays nicer with windows power settings than chrome and that is what is going on?

[Enderman]

1 hour ago, RejZoR said:

Opera is very underrated browser. And so is Brave. Everyone raving about stupid Chrome and I'm always scratching my head why would ANYONE ever pick Chrome instead of Firefox, Opera or Brave...

Because it's better and faster than other browsers.

Also it's made by google so all device syncing, password syncing, etc is done through the gmail account.

[Steven123123]

lynx2 for ubuntu :) I actually used this when i had a single core netbook. Its great for reading stuff like wikipedia on batteries

[duncannah]

You can use w3m

 

[Bouzoo]

1 hour ago, RejZoR said:

Opera is very underrated browser. And so is Brave. Everyone raving about stupid Chrome and I'm always scratching my head why would ANYONE ever pick Chrome instead of Firefox, Opera or Brave...

Sadly cross device sync, bookmarks and account with your google account is unmatched. As an alternative I am using Samsung Internet on phone with extension on Chrome on desktop. It needs work but it's getting there.

[RejZoR]

1 hour ago, Enderman said:

Because it's better and faster than other browsers.

Also it's made by google so all device syncing, password syncing, etc is done through the gmail account.

Under what rock were you living to believe in all honesty that Google did syncing first? Firefox had it first. Or was it Opera. I don't remember exactly because it's so long ago it might even be Internet Explorer with an external addon. Before that it was extension for Firefox called Xmarks that later got merged with LastPass parent company. I've been using bookmarks syncing between desktop and mobile device for so long I can't even remember when it first appeared, but I know it was long before Chrome even existed on any level.

 

I also don't know how it's better. It's not even fast and it has basically no features at all. To get any kind of even basic functionality you need to stack it with tons of extensions after which it becomes a big fat blob that's not even fast at all and has one of the dumbest design decisions others just copy like absolute morons just because Google made it and they think it's the best shit ever (closing of last tab also closing entire browser for example).

[Bouzoo]

1 minute ago, RejZoR said:

Under what rock were you living to believe in all honesty that Google did syncing first? Firefox had it first. Or was it Opera. I don't remember exactly because it's so long ago it might even be Internet Explorer with an external addon. Before that it was extension for Firefox called Xmarks that later got merged with LastPass parent company. I've been using bookmarks syncing between desktop and mobile device for so long I can't even remember when it first appeared, but I know it was long before Chrome even existed on any level.

I think what he means is that Chrome is made by Google, not syncing in general, so you can sync everything with a single account. 

[RejZoR]

1 minute ago, Bouzoo said:

I think what he means is that Chrome is made by Google, not syncing in general, so you can sync everything with a single account. 

And how is that a major feature? Firefox's account also syncs everything under one account. So what if it's not Google account? Whole world doesn't revolve around single service for logins which is apparently assumed to be Google. I ditched Google entirely long ago and pretty much nothing changed. I'm using password manager to login to things so it's about as inconvenient as remembering Google's login itself...

[Bouzoo]

17 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

And how is that a major feature? Firefox's account also syncs everything under one account. So what if it's not Google account? Whole world doesn't revolve around single service for logins which is apparently assumed to be Google. I ditched Google entirely long ago and pretty much nothing changed. I'm using password manager to login to things so it's about as inconvenient as remembering Google's login itself...

It's the easiest way to sync for the majority of people so for most people it is a major feature. Using an android device? You need a google account, with which you get gmail account, chrome account, per se, and everything. You're set, that's it. You can store your contacts, emails, bookmarks, everything. No separate registers, one account for android phone, one for firefox or some other browser, then maybe third for e-mail if it's not gmail. You have gmail alone? Or just want to be able to log in anywhere on any PC and have everything since basically every PC anywhere will have Chrome and not maybe even Mozilla? Well just log in to and you have, literally,  everything on your account, even if you don't have a smartphone.

You ditched it? Good for you, you're the minority. Statistics don't lie, the world does resolve around Google pretty much. And when it comes to 1 solution for all those things mentioned, no, they don't have a competition. There is not a single company that has such a simple widespread solution for basically all platforms, unless you're in Apple eco system which has it's own pros and cons, so obviously Google is irrelevant there. You can argue MS but you'll still need to work around some stuff, like android, and personally some of their stuff is broken or unusable (like bookmarks at least for me). 

And I personally hate it. I am trying to have the most simple solution yet use Google the least I can. But both of us are, once again, the minority. 

[noobofepicness66]

use chrome when plugged in

[duncannah]

BTW Brave and Opera are just bloated versions of Chrome -- the upcoming Edge might be good but it's still being worked on

[RejZoR]

24 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

It's the easiest way to sync for the majority of people so for most people it is a major feature. Using an android device? You need a google account, with which you get gmail account, chrome account, per se, and everything. You're set, that's it. You can store your contacts, emails, bookmarks, everything. No separate registers, one account for android phone, one for firefox or some other browser, then maybe third for e-mail if it's not gmail. You have gmail alone? Or just want to be able to log in anywhere on any PC and have everything since basically every PC anywhere will have Chrome and not maybe even Mozilla? Well just log in to and you have, literally,  everything on your account, even if you don't have a smartphone.

You ditched it? Good for you, you're the minority. Statistics don't lie, the world does resolve around Google pretty much. And when it comes to 1 solution for all those things mentioned, no, they don't have a competition. There is not a single company that has such a simple widespread solution for basically all platforms, unless you're in Apple eco system which has it's own pros and cons, so obviously Google is irrelevant there. You can argue MS but you'll still need to work around some stuff, like android, and personally some of their stuff is broken or unusable (like bookmarks at least for me). 

And I personally hate it. I am trying to have the most simple solution yet use Google the least I can. But both of us are, once again, the minority. 

Now you're saying like you can't login to GMail because the browser is Firefox or Opera... Ugh? Whole world revolves around Google because people are lazy, dumb and ignorant and they just use whatever everyone is using like absolute sheep. It's why Chrome is so popular. Not because it's actually that good, it's because everyone is shilling stupid Chrome on all ends, it's promoted on all ends, it's bundled with everything. But none of that makes it good or even better. It just means it has the most presence among people, but for all other reasons than quality or good design.

[RejZoR]

Just now, duncannah said:

BTW Brave and Opera are just bloated versions of Chrome -- the upcoming Edge might be good but it's still being worked on

Bloated? LMAO. Opera, maybe, but it's not even fat because of it and stuff you don't need can be unticked easily. Brave, literally has essential features backed with ad and track blocking. How is something this essential a bloat? But installing 20 extensions to make Chrome half usable isn't bloat...

[Bouzoo]

12 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

Now you're saying like you can't login to GMail because the browser is Firefox or Opera... Ugh? Whole world revolves around Google because people are lazy, dumb and ignorant and they just use whatever everyone is using like absolute sheep. It's why Chrome is so popular. Not because it's actually that good, it's because everyone is shilling stupid Chrome on all ends, it's promoted on all ends, it's bundled with everything. But none of that makes it good or even better. It just means it has the most presence among people, but for all other reasons than quality or good design.

It's not that good, far from it, but it's the easiest way to have everything. That gmail was actually part of another sentence that was leftover so you can ignore that. MY point is that you can have literally everything, on all platforms, with only 1 account. Most people don't care and don't need more than that. For most people you can't beat simplicity.

[duncannah]

7 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

But installing 20 extensions to make Chrome half usable isn't bloat...

The integrated adblocker only replaces one extension, but even then:

1 minute ago, RejZoR said:

Brave, literally has essential features backed with ad and track blocking

The adblocking is not adequate, for example it doesn't even block ads that disguise as normal posts. And this is the most control you can get with it (you can block specific elements thru right click but that's it, no way to add regional blocklists either, or to create exceptions):

So you might as well just install uBlock Origin anyway. 

[RejZoR]

Brave's blocking features do the job of several extensions. And uBlock isn't all that great. Sure, it blocks a lot, but it really creates a significant loading delay even on high end system which is just annoying as hell. As for some ads coming through, it's not end of the world. Bottom line, it's part of the browser and it works fast.

[Aggravated Salmon]

5 hours ago, RejZoR said:

Opera is very underrated browser. And so is Brave. Everyone raving about stupid Chrome and I'm always scratching my head why would ANYONE ever pick Chrome instead of Firefox, Opera or Brave...

I agree.

I have used Opera since 2012 when I switched from Safari (had a mac back then)

However, I have ran into major MAJOR issues with Opera and thus switched to Chrome

BUT, I got a fkin mining virus

And thus I am using Firefox as my main for now.

[Enderman]

10 hours ago, RejZoR said:

Under what rock were you living to believe in all honesty that Google did syncing first? Firefox had it first. Or was it Opera. I don't remember exactly because it's so long ago it might even be Internet Explorer with an external addon. Before that it was extension for Firefox called Xmarks that later got merged with LastPass parent company. I've been using bookmarks syncing between desktop and mobile device for so long I can't even remember when it first appeared, but I know it was long before Chrome even existed on any level.

 

I also don't know how it's better. It's not even fast and it has basically no features at all. To get any kind of even basic functionality you need to stack it with tons of extensions after which it becomes a big fat blob that's not even fast at all and has one of the dumbest design decisions others just copy like absolute morons just because Google made it and they think it's the best shit ever (closing of last tab also closing entire browser for example).

LOL who cares who did it first...

Syncing through a single gmail account is safer and more convenient.

Chrome has more extensions than any other browser and also ://flags and many other features/tweaks, which clearly you're not aware about.

 

It's also faster than other browsers because it actually uses your ram to cache pages instead of 'being conservative' and caching to your storage drive or even redownloading entire webpages.

[RejZoR]

36 minutes ago, Enderman said:

LOL who cares who did it first...

Syncing through a single gmail account is safer and more convenient.

Chrome has more extensions than any other browser and also ://flags and many other features/tweaks, which clearly you're not aware about.

 

It's also faster than other browsers because it actually uses your ram to cache pages instead of 'being conservative' and caching to your storage drive or even redownloading entire webpages.

Yeah, the Flags... Dumbed down version of about:config in Firefox. Also that caching explanation, dude, you have no idea how browsers work or cache data if that's what you think how things work. Chrome has more low quality extensions because they are mostly garbage. The quality ones are on all major browsers. Or they are so limited that its devs need to do hacks to get desired result. Really awesome yeah... Also since when is single account storing ALL your data safer? Not to mention it's a god damn privacy nightmare beginning with the fact it's Google. Because scanning emails wasn't enough, they need to know EVERYTHING that you access, browse or type in browser. I'd rather use Edge then...