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Written by Open Web Advocacy on 2024-12-06 at 22:47

Apple claims that it forces Webkit to protect user's battery life. Turns out chrome/chromium has a better battery life.

Apple has a long list of excuses as to why it has to push the web out from mobile.

👉 https://birchtree.me/blog/everyone-says-chrome-devastates-mac-battery-life-but-does-it-i-tested-for-36-hours-to-find-out/

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Written by Let Me Show You on 2024-12-06 at 22:48

@owa The mobile IE.

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Written by Scott Jenson on 2024-12-06 at 23:01

@owa We just need a website called "webkitexcuses.org" that is nothing but a list of every sad, insincere argument they've ever floated with links to a) their claim and b) the actual answer.

It would be a VERY long webpage indeed....

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Written by JK on 2024-12-07 at 00:10

@owa Firefox?

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Written by Open Web Advocacy on 2024-12-07 at 00:13

@jamienk the author of the article only tested chrome it looks like it. To be honest all modern browsers have pretty good battery life, the only here is Apple is trying to use it as an excuse to exclude the other browsers from iOS

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Written by JK on 2024-12-08 at 18:18

@owa I hear you. From my POV, I think getting FF onto iPhone is more important, because then the features could be driven by what people want, rather than for what is in the interests of Apple or Google.

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Written by Open Web Advocacy on 2024-12-14 at 10:02

@jamienk Real competition will also force Apple to invest more

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Written by niu tech on 2024-12-07 at 13:35

@owa These browsers tests claim that #Safari is the most energy-efficient: https://medium.com/homullus/8-browsers-in-a-tiny-car-energy-efficiency-benchmark-fe3ca82f1690 and https://themainframe.ca/comparing-firefox-chrome-and-safari-battery-life/

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Written by Open Web Advocacy on 2024-12-07 at 14:14

@niutech This may have been true a year ago, but the reality is it doesn’t actually matter, since energy efficiency can be a point of competition between browsers. The real issue is Apple likes to give a laundry list of excuses to regulators of why they have to exclude third party browsers on iOS including battery life.

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Written by Joseph on 2024-12-07 at 15:49

@owa I don't really understand what is it that you think is going to happen that will help the open web once we only have chrome/chromium browsers...

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Written by niu tech on 2024-12-08 at 16:00

@r_df_ng @owa Why would we have only Chromium-based browsers? There are many alternative web engines: Gecko, Goanna, @webkit, @servo, Ladybird's LibWeb, Ekioh's Flow. It would unlock competition.

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Written by Joseph on 2024-12-08 at 17:35

@niutech @owa @webkit @servo Sigh, this is exactly the problem, you are right! There are many engines, it sounds great to have more competition, except everyone who is not a tech inclined person couldn't give a damn, they're all going to select Chrome because that is what they know, and it's this fantasy about choice that will lead us to a chrome/chromium only web.

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