But battery life is also affected by other factors (this is not an exhaustive list):

ads – they increase memory consumption and require more energy from your computer’s battery animated themes: as lively and interesting as they are, they too drain your laptop’s battery the number of tabs opened: we all tend to open tens of browsers when we are looking for a particular information. When we find it, we focus on two or three tabs, but we don’t close the others.

Opera took all these elements into account, and released a dedicated power saving browser version to its developer channel. According to the company, this browser named “Opera 39” extends your battery life by up to 50% compared to Google Chrome. Until this browser lands to mainstream usage, you can also use a few tricks to extend your laptop’s battery life, such as setting up a power saving plan among other things. Opera 39 pops-up a battery icon next to the address field when the laptop’s power cable is unplugged. All you have to do is click on the battery icon to activate the power saving mode. If you forget to do that, the browser will suggest you to enable this feature when your the remaining battery capacity reaches the 20% threshold. [irp posts=”29179″ name=”Microsoft claims Edge is its most secure browser with no zero-day exploits so far”] The Opera team operated the following optimizations to enhance this battery saving capacity:

Reduced activity in background tabs Waking CPU less often due to more optimal scheduling of JavaScript timers Automatically pausing unused plug-ins Reduced frame rate to 30 frames per second Tuning video-playback parameters and forcing usage of hardware accelerated video codecs Paused animations of browser themes

The team further details the results: Could this battery saving feature help Opera to dethrone Google Chrome and become the most popular browser in the world? You can download the Opera developer browser here and test it for yourself. The power saving mode results […] were actually done on a Lenovo X250, Core i7-5600U, 16GB RAM and Dell XPS 13, 16GB RAM running on Windows 10, 64-bit, high-performance power mode. Speaking of Opera, if you miss the old version you can check out the Vivaldi web browser for Windows 10 which brings back the old Opera and our exclusive interview with Opera founder, Jon von Tetzchner speaking about Vivaldi. RELATED STORIES YOU NEED TO CHECK OUT:

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