Re: power use on Yosemite

2014-11-10 Thread Seth Fowler
On Nov 3, 2014, at 1:44 PM, rviti...@mozilla.com wrote: > In particular Facebook, which practically appears in any top 10 list, had > (has?) a serious power bug that caused FF to render a hidden spinning wheel. > Because of this single bug any power benchmark performed by the press, which > was

Re: power use on Yosemite

2014-11-03 Thread rvitillo
On Saturday, November 1, 2014 7:48:11 PM UTC, Andreas Gal wrote: > I am using Nightly on Yosemite and power use is pretty atrocious. The battery > menu tags Firefox Nightly as a significant battery hog, and I can confirm > this from the user experience perspective as well. My battery time is a >

Re: power use on Yosemite

2014-11-03 Thread Mike Hoye
On 2014-11-03 12:32 PM, Martin Thomson wrote: On 02/11/14 18:13, Mike Hoye wrote: "We found that blocking on a slow connection used consistently more power than idle. This could be solely due to network traffic, but network traffic was very periodic (1 packet in and 1 packet out per second), thu

Re: power use on Yosemite

2014-11-03 Thread Martin Thomson
On 02/11/14 18:13, Mike Hoye wrote: "We found that blocking on a slow connection used consistently more power than idle. This could be solely due to network traffic, but network traffic was very periodic (1 packet in and 1 packet out per second), thus much of the work could likely be attributed t

Re: power use on Yosemite

2014-11-02 Thread Mike Hoye
On 2014-11-01 3:47 PM, Andreas Gal wrote: > Ideas welcome. Before he left, Taras was discussing power consumption analysis with Abram Hindle, a researcher at the university of Alberta. Some of Hindle's work is here: http://softwareprocess.es/static/GreenMining.html Specifically this paper: "

Re: power use on Yosemite

2014-11-01 Thread Andreas Gal
> > Are we using the discrete GPU when Chrome is not? That was my first guess as well. As far as I can tell we fall back to integrated GPU just fine, according to the Activity Monitor. Even App Nap seems to work when FF is occluded. Yet, our avg energy impact is 5x of Chrome. Andreas > > - K

Re: power use on Yosemite

2014-11-01 Thread Kyle Huey
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Andreas Gal wrote: > > I am using Nightly on Yosemite and power use is pretty atrocious. The battery > menu tags Firefox Nightly as a significant battery hog, and I can confirm > this from the user experience perspective as well. My battery time is a > fraction

power use on Yosemite

2014-11-01 Thread Andreas Gal
I am using Nightly on Yosemite and power use is pretty atrocious. The battery menu tags Firefox Nightly as a significant battery hog, and I can confirm this from the user experience perspective as well. My battery time is a fraction of using Chrome for the same tasks. Not every kind of content