Browser Performance & Battery Life Results – Info Mac

I wanted to see which modern browser was the fastest on my Mac laptop, but I don’t trust out of date benchmarks posted by CNET, and I run beta browsers with a bunch of plugins enabled…some of which can impact performance (like ad blockers). I’ve seen all the claims that Safari is better than Chrome, but a claim without data is just a story, and I haven’t seen any tests that included the use of plugins. So I ran my own Web 3 Basemark Tests, in a loop loading a specified gmail folder as well as my reddit home page until my battery died. Note that I don’t consider the total times to be relevant, as these benchmarks push the machine and CPU pretty hard – harder than most do while using the web….what’s important is the difference.

Each browser had the same set of plugins loaded (1Password, uBlock Origin, Zoom, Amazon Assistant).

Here’s my results:

For me, I will miss a couple of my ancillary (but not super important) plugins from Chrome at the benefit of a significant increase in battery life by moving to Safari.