What browser for laptop?

Question

Browsers

I thought about the lifetime of a windows laptop, and even came across a MS EDGE PR where it saves the battery as much as possible.
Tell us who uses what and how is your laptop working time?
Now I use the latter Chrome, but as for me, it is slightly outdated, eats a lot of resources, battery (did not check), although it has a bunch of useful functionality for testing web interfaces and debugging code.
In general, I will listen to everyone :)

Answer 1

The main thing is to buy more RAM to the maximum that your laptop supports.
And use Chrome. If you have 8 GB of RAM, then this should be enough for comfort. Well, if more, then everything is cool.
Battery consumption is almost independent of the browser. If a script on some site requires a lot of calculations, then it will eat batteries in about the same way in all browsers. But in most cases, after loading the site, there is no work or it is minimal. (Separately, we can mention trackers and ads that are successfully cut using uBlock Origin ).
And here's what the battery eats besides the processor - screen brightness, active device operation, network, sound, etc.
Well, if the battery is old, then nothing will help it, obviously.

Answer 2

Well, in general, Opera (more precisely xpOpera) was the firstborn of battery saving technology in the browser, and it seems to me that it remains so. It detects battery operation itself, changes the mode itself. I myself use it all the time, FF, Chrome and Vivaldi and compare it naturally with them.
BUT! If you think sensibly, then the dollar is still right - if some browser saves the battery, then at best the increase in autonomy will be a fraction of a percent.
But with RAM, everything is complicated - it seems that the purchased bar is a separate consumer, on the other hand, if Windows has some technologies resembling zswap or zram (I don’t know, but let the Windows experts correct it if not), then adding a memory bar to In this case, it should help to remove additional load from the processor. On the third hand, compression to support zswap or zram hardly takes a lot of energy, and hardly anyone figured out how much it takes at all.
However, if you're swapping to a file on disk, then writing and reading can be quite costly, but this is where we get to the issue of disk power management and things get even more complicated.
To summarize the idea about memory, we can say that installing an additional bracket will definitely unpredictably affect or not affect the duration of your laptop.
But replacing the existing bar with a more capacious one should help, but it is hardly better than a placebo or oscilococcylum.