On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Andreas Gal <andreas....@gmail.com> 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 of using Chrome for the same tasks.
>
> Not every kind of content seems to trigger this behavior, but Google Sheets 
> in Firefox seems to be a pretty reliable way to drain my battery quickly.
>
> I checked with Instruments and I don’t think CPU utilization per se is the 
> problem. We use less CPU than Chrome, especially if you add up all the many 
> Chrome processes. Our CPU utilization is better than Chrome’s but our battery 
> behavior is much worse. That’s really odd.
>
> Ideas welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andreas
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Are we using the discrete GPU when Chrome is not?

- Kyle
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