Power saving mode claims to be able to extend your laptop battery life by 50% compared with using another browser such as Google Chrome.
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Opera has introduced a new power saving mode in its popular Opera browser and this new mode can apparently extend the battery life of your notebook by up to 50%. The battery saving figures come from tests Opera performed on a Lenovo X250 laptop, running Windows 10 with a Core i7 processor and 16GB of RAM.
The new “Power Saving Mode” is available in the developer stream and works automatically.
Read about the new release in detail here.
Other changes include a code clean-up, optimisation of animated themes and a new memory management technique created to make regularly used tabs, such as Gmail and Facebook, run more smoothly.
Opera is in the news quite a bit lately with new features such as integrated VPN.
The developer build of Opera with power saver mode enabled.
Battery saving on Opera for computers is possible thanks to optimizations, such as reducing activity from background tabs, adapting page-redrawing frequency and tuning video-playback parameters.
This claim will need to be tested in the real world and of course can change dependent on many factors, especially in regard to the coding on websites and whether they run flash, etc. The company told The Verge that they’d repeated the test three times, and taken an average of those times to reach their headline figure. For example previous year it was found that Google’s Chrome browser proved to be a battery drain on the MacBook. One caveat is that the testing was made with ad blocking turned on as well, which can account for a significant part of the battery life improvement.
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A 50% battery life extension is enormous.
