An acquaintance with a laptop<br>running Apple's OS X has noticed<br>that Firefox consumes a lot more<br>power just sitting there than Safari,<br>the default browser, does.<br><br>A power monitoring program shows<br>that other fluff running in the background
<br>also chews up a lot of power - this <br>measured in terms of the percentage of <br>CPU use. And the one that chews up the<br>most is the power monitoring program,<br>but that's OK while one is figuring out<br>what is going on.
<br><br>Anyway, has anyone noticed anything <br>similar about Firefox under Linux on a<br>laptop? There's no particular reason<br>to think anything would be different,<br>but that's not proof. In an environment
<br>where battery life is at a premium, one<br>plays the game of getting rid of everything<br>within reason that just sits and eats up<br>minutes of batter life. <br><br>The person with the OS X system says <br>that in the resting state Safari uses no
<br>power. Why might this be? Do the <br>plugins, for example, in Firefox typically<br>run in the background?<br><br> -Bob<br><br>