Windows 10 Edge browser will also have experimental power-saving features

A few days ago, Microsoft just introduced a power-saving improvement for Chromium Edge that reduces resource consumption by automatically turning off unnecessary disk caching while watching the video. In the browser’s streaming test, it does extend the battery life of mobile devices. In contrast, Chromium adds the streaming content being played to the HTTP cache, and this method of using disk resources to cache streaming content obviously increases battery consumption.

Microsoft Edge engineers pointed out

“I ran some power comparison tests today with the latest changes on YouTube content (to evaluate response-side change), and I saw ~79mW improvement compared to the baseline for 720p content. This was an average of 5 runs of 5 minutes each in full-screen mode, both for the baseline and with the changes. So the response-side power savings appear comparable with the request-side savings.”

Interested friends can enter Edge://flasg in the address bar, search for “Turn off caching of streaming media to disk”, and then restart the browser.

Source, Image: Windows Latest