Opera claims to boost the autonomy of your laptop by 50% – 01net.com

In the jungle browsers where Chrome dominates, Opera trying to get a place by multiplying innovative features. After the ads blocker and virtual private network (VPN), a new feature has just made its appearance via a stack icon to the right of the address bar. This icon displays on laptops only. And rightly so, simply click on it to enable or disable the browser’s power saving function

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According to Opera, this function increases the autonomy of the laptop by 50% compared to that obtained using Chrome or old version of Opera. An assertion which seems very ambitious and the publisher supports highlighting for load testing of 11 websites with automated Selenium WebDriver, made on a Lenovo laptop with Windows 10. However, the advertising blocker was also active for the test.

to achieve this, the browser performs several operations. First, it reduces the activity of non-active tabs and the page refresh rate. Then he pauses unused extensions and animation themes. Finally, it optimizes the video display by forcing such hardware acceleration.

The power saving function is now present in the new version of the developer but should be by subsequently implanted in the official version of the browser. It will be possible at all to see if Opera holds its beautiful promise

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