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Comment by chankstein38 | Hacker News Reader

So I just Googled "2023 browser benchmarks" and aside from one result that went Firefox, Edge, ..., Chrome, every single one I've read has been "1. Chrome 2. Edge ..."

Obviously Google could be biasing the results so I asked ChatGPT with Bing and got:

1. Google Chrome 2. Microsoft Edge

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Did you also check battery life and memory usage? That's more noticeable than a website loading 1% faster in Chrome. Sure, now Chrome can also sleep inactive tabs now to save memory, but that's relative recent feature, while Edge had this for over 2 years.

You made a very strong claim of Edge being objectively better. When I pointed Edge privacy issue you narrowed objectivity to 3 metrics of your choice. When another commenter said Edge is better in one of those, you stick with the remaining 2. Edge might be better at some things sure, but then we are very far off from Edge being "objectively" better, otherwise every MSFT product will be "objectively" better than competition since one can always chose 2 random metrics that favour one product over other.

Metrics weren't random but exactly those metrics that mattered for the users switching from IE to Chrome: speed, ram usage, battery usage.

Here's the first results on Google from a review on October 2023:

"Edge performs similar to Chrome in benchmarks, but has markedly lower RAM usage when you open some tabs. We're declaring Edge the winner in performance, which is quite a turnaround for Microsoft, the company that made Internet Explorer."

Source: https://www.androidauthority.com/chrome-vs-edge-3298624/

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