[GRLUG] Laptop battery life

[Olding, Jim]

I haven't tried any tests of battery life with Firefox myself, but you
might be interested in a program called PowerTop from Intel

http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/

Perhaps Firefox is constantly keeping the cpu active because it is
trying to manage in-memory cache constantly, while Safari isn't as
aggressive with caching (I've got nothing to back this up, just
guessing)?

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From: grlug-bounces at grlug.org [mailto:grlug-bounces at grlug.org] On Behalf
Of Bob Kline
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 6:39 PM
To: grlug
Subject: [GRLUG] Laptop battery life

The person with the OS X system says 
that in the resting state Safari uses no 
power.  Why might this be?  Do the 
plugins, for example,  in Firefox typically
run in the background?

    -Bob