by Jason Snell
Does Chrome really kill Mac battery life?
Matt Birchler ran a lot of battery tests and found that the conventional wisdom that Chrome kills Mac battery life just doesn’t hold up:
Using Chrome would leave you with 54% of your battery remaining, and Safari would leave you with about 50% left in the tank. Is that a difference? Sure, but if I work all day and see my battery is at 54% or 50%, I’m impressed either way.
I’ll be interested to see if others try to do more comprehensive tests and validate or invalidate these claims, but if Matt is correct, blaming Chrome for battery drain seems to be more received folk wisdom than reality.