Chrome become a battery hog?

[mail2u]

Hi folks,

Always like chrome but just read recently that it's a battery hog especially on OS X. When did this happen? Haven't been paying attention to my tech for a while.

 

[Bigeric23]

Chrome has been acting odd (on OS X) for the last couple of updates. I've been using Safari more and more.

 

[Brian Brew]

Safari is highly optimized for this. Chrome is not, and it's slower.


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[mail2u]

Okay. I switched back to Safari as well. Chrome on my new Macbook was a battery killer.

 

[Benjamin Langley]

I have a three year old 15 MacBook Retina and have not noticed any battery issue with Chrome. I generally don't have it plugged in as go go from class to class. I can't replicate this very talked about issue at least on my model.

 

[John903]

I just use Safari also. Chrome just destroys the battery. In fact, I uninstalled it.