Does Chrome Burn Through More Power Than Firefox?

The last test for this article is of the ClubCompy benchmark.

With ClubCompy, unlike the previous two browser tests, the power consumption of the three web-browsers are nearly the same. All of the web browsers were within one Watt of eachother during this HTML5 benchmark.

The CPU usage results were also closer to eachother than in any of the previous tests.

As far as the ClubCompy results go, Firefox was at 9665, Firefox 5 at 12017, and Chrome 13 at 20694.

From these tests on the three web-browsers using the Intel notebook, the power consumption of Chrome 13 was largely comparable to Firefox 4.0 and not burning through "excessively more power." The finding that was a bit frightening, however, was Firefox 5.0 burning through noticeably more power than Firefox 4.0 during the Peacekeeper and SunSpider benchmarks. This might be worth exploring further. If there is much interest, this browser power consumption comparison will be expanded with further tests and a wider selection of web-browsers and tested versions.