Opera on Thursday announced a dedicated power-saving mode in the
developer version of its Web browser.Tests showed it extended laptop
battery life by up to 50 percent against Google Chrome, the company
said.The browser will suggest that users enable the power-saving mode
when their laptop battery has 20 percent of capacity left. Clicking on
the battery icon in the browser after a laptop is disconnected from its
power cable activates it."To some degree, this is about allowing savvy
browser power users to kick the tires around thenew features," said Al Hilwa, a research director
at IDCSeattle. "Developer audiences are both demanding of their browsers
and also tolerant of buggy code to a degree if positioned properly to
them."Opera released the feature through its developer channel so it
could "test out websites and Web apps to ensure content renders
correctly in the new browser release," he told TechNewsWorld.Opera
tested the power-saving mode on two laptops -- a Lenovo X250 powered by
an Intel Core i7-5600U processor and a Dell XPS 13, both with 16 GB of
RAM running on Windows 10 with 64-bit high-performance power mode.It
used Selenium WebDriver to load 11 popular websites, including YouTube,
onto the devices.Each page was opened in a separate tab, without
previous ones being closed, and was scrolled five times, then left alone
for a minute.The test was conducted repeatedly until the laptop
batteries were drained.
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