Though every day should be World Environment Day, today is actually that day, so it’s only fitting to shine some energy efficient light on a new study that crowns Internet Explorer 10 as king of the browsers – at least when it comes to saving precious energy on Windows 8.
The Center for Sustainable Energy Systems at Fraunhofer USA found IE uses up to 18 percent less energy than Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. To put that in perspective, if every Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox user in the United States switched to IE 10 on Windows 8 for a year, the energy saved could power over 10,000 households in the United States for that year.
Fraunhofer’s research pitted some of the most popular browsers against each other to test energy consumption on Windows 8: IE 10, Google Chrome 26 and Mozilla Firefox. Researchers tested them on desktop and laptop computers in several common scenarios, including browsing the most popular websites in the United States, and playing video through Adobe Flash and HTML5.
IE 10 came through like a champ, with the lowest energy use. When it came to playing Adobe Flash video on laptop PCs, it was 18 percent more energy efficient than Google Chrome, and it was 17 percent more efficient than Mozilla Firefox in playing HTML5 video.
Read the full story on the Exploring IE blog.
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Athima Chansanchai
Microsoft News Center Staff