Opera says it crushes Microsoft in browser battery wars

The browser battery wars are heating up. Microsoft made a bold claim earlier this week that its new Edge browser in Windows 10 is better for your laptop's battery life than Opera or Chrome. While everyone who uses Chrome is aware of the bad effect on battery life, Opera introduced a battery saving feature last month to improve things on its own Chromium-based (Blink) browser. Naturally, Opera saw the Edge claims and the company has a bone to pick with Microsoft.

"Like most other engineering teams, we love it when someone picks a fight," says Błażej Kaźmierczak, director of software development at Opera. "If we get beaten in a test like this, we consider it a bug." Microsoft hasn't revealed exactly what its battery tests consist of, so...

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