Amd 7640u w/ 55wh battery, ubuntu 24, kernel 6.8
On Firefox I usually get 6 hours of battery life if not playing video. Background activity is minimal.
Today I tried chrome with the exact same open tabs/websites & same plugins. Battery life increased to 8 hours.
I’ll be using chrome now, but I’d also like to hear if Intel model benefit from the same. (planning to switch over to intel once next gen is released)
Try using Chromium, or ungoogled-chromium (which I use). Has some other advantages too.
It’s hard to find/verify a chromium build that has auto-update and all the security features enabled. For the same reason I didn’t choose ungoogled-chromium… see ungoogled-chromium.
And Ubuntu’s snap chromium does not support keepassxc integration, which snap firefox does.
Did you make sure to enable the hardware accel in Firefox? It is usually not enabled by default on Linux.
Yes and it doesn not make a difference when not playing video. (even when playing video, it does not make a huge difference, due to… amd)
So, you go for security, and you want a password manager integration?
This is bad security due to laziness. Same with fingerprints.
They can hack your finger off but have to beat out the password out of you.
Unfortunately I’m lazy… the risk here is that some site tricks PW manager into submitting password, but should be fine if I set keepass to always popup with every request.
I know what you mean. But I always put the login/PWD myself and disable the autopwd from all password managers by default.
is it possible that this is because Chrom-(e | ium) has more aggressive unused tab unloading settings by default? Maybe manipulating these in FF’s config can improve things a bit? (no idea if it will help: just brainstorming)
That got a lot better recently
Interesting I had the exact opposite result; firefox (non flatpak) running on fedora39 consumed 6w idling in the Desktop. Prorietary chrome (installed via official repo) was 8 or 9 watts doing the same.
Flatpaks changed thing a little but the trend was the same.
suppose it has something to do with the “security” settings. Loading more or less javascript crap?