*The MacBook Air Retina uses an ultra-low-power (aka, lower performance) dual-core "Amber Lake" Intel dual-core i5-8210Y processor. If you have a fast laptop with lots of memory (16GB) and a fast processor (a newer Intel quad-core processor), you probably won’t be affected, i.e., you may not notice the issues described above.īut if you keep a lot of browser tabs open and active and use (1) an older laptop or (2) a new low-cost laptop (under $700), or (3) a new ultra-thin laptop with an ultra-low-power Intel processor with 8GB or memory or less, you’re probably going to have a problem. Put another way, Edge lasted 14 longer than Chrome and an immense 98 longer than Firefox. On both, I installed Windows 11 and the latest versions of all the major web browsers available at the time of testing: Microsoft Edge 103, Mozilla. Both laptops are new devices that have been used only for testing purposes for about two weeks. But while it beats Chrome in some key metrics. The ZenBook 14X UM5401Q is powered by a 63 Watt-hours lithium-ion battery. It’s fixed by closing tabs in both Chrome and Safari. Microsofts Chromium-based Edge browser is often described as a faster and less resource-demanding alternative to the competition from Google and co. The problem isn’t fixed by closing tabs in Chrome. I’ve discovered that in some cases this can bring the MacBook Air almost to its knees, slowing it down enough that I have to stop using it temporarily. And I typically stream cable TV news in one of the tabs in either Safari or Chrome. I typically have about a dozen tabs open in Chrome and multiple tabs open in Safari – by necessity (i.e., I don’t leave tabs open unless I’m using them). And invariably my MacBook Air slows down. So much so that I get warnings at the top of Safari about web pages using too much memory. Yes, Safari tends to be more efficient on the Mac but even Safari gets sluggish when I have more than a few tabs open and simultaneously have tabs open in Chrome.
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