Study: Internet Explorer consumes the fewest resources

Although you will rarely be interested in this real world, a new study has confirmed that Internet Explorer is more energy efficient than Chrome or Firefox.

A vital feature for notebook users with zero utility for owners of desktop systems, energy consumption is for certain applications, for various reasons, not sufficiently optimized.

Hoping to come first, Microsoft asked the Fraunhofer Institute for a study to determine the power consumption for the most used applications on a notebook. It is about web browsers. Internet Explorer 10 happens to consume up to 18% less power than Chrome or Firefox when pages are displayed with Flash and HTML5 content, feature highlighted and the chart above.

“If each user of Chrome and Firefox would go on IE10 would save on the long term enough electricity to power over 10,000 U.S. homes for a year."

To enhance the value of this small advantage, Redmond threw a very bold statement across Chrome and Firefox users. In other words, Google and Mozilla harm our planet, while Microsoft has an ecological attitude. Although it is difficult to verify how true the above statement is, there is definitely a real foundation behind. Who knows, this information may be leaning toward Microsoft browser next time when you were angry at an error message on Chrome or Firefox.