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the web browser that does not eat your battery recently Microsoft started a campaign saying its new edge browser offers the best battery life for your laptop Microsoft compared edge to Chrome Firefox and opera with its power saving mode on however opera did not take too kindly to that it published a blog post saying we love it when someone picks a fight if we get beaten in a test like this we consider it a bug the Opera team calls out Microsoft for not fully disclosing its testing methods so it divides its own tests with a public methodology opera found its opera developer browser with power saver enabled and native ad blocker let a Windows 10 laptop run 22% longer than Microsoft edge opera let the laptop run 35% longer than Google Chrome the Opera team says when it originally compared its power saving mode to other browsers it did not bother to look at Microsoft edge since it runs on Windows 10 only if you've never heard of opera it's a favorite among a small dedicated group the Opera browser originated tabbed browsing a private mode and native pop-up blocking Microsoft is currently pushing edge since its Windows 10 anniversary update is due next month what have we learned from all of this well Google Chrome can be a battery hug I'm Aya's Akhtar and you can keep up with a hottest tech news at cnet.com slash