One would think that would be as a direct result of consuming *more* resources, ...

Rebelgecko · on Sept 23, 2018

Last time I played around with comparing, Chrome and Firefox were comparable in terms of battery drain on my MBP. However they were both significantly worse than Safari, which barely ever turns on the discrete GPU while I'm browsing.

kiaulen · on Sept 22, 2018

Well, if you're looking for battery life, both safari and edge have excellent battery life by virtue of not doing anything useful.

And if you're looking to do dev work, that usually means at minimum an editor, a server, and a browser, which seems like too much to run unplugged.

Retr0spectrum · on Sept 23, 2018

Unless your editor is actually a webapp itself, I don't see how that's going to tip anything over the edge in terms of practicality...

The resources consumed by any web server I can think of are entirely inconsequential.