Chrome to the Bad App Graveyard

[SeeBeeEss]

Who knew that Chrome worked so hard "optimizing" your digital life that it had to eat a disproportionate percentage of your battery? It used 13% of my battery in the past 24 hours, with 10 minutes of screen time and 28 minutes working in the background (doing what, who knows?). Edge also used 13% of my battery in the past 24 hours, with 340 minutes of screen time and 1 minute working in the background.

I seldom use Chrome these days, have been monitoring its battery usage because it has seemed insanely high, and it appears that is time to send Chrome to my own personal "bad app graveyard."

 

[YankInDaSouth]

Yeah, I've been noticing that Chrome is extremely high on my battery usage list despite minimal usage. I've restricted background usage for Chrome (in both mobile data and battery usage categories) but it still is a HOG! I use Samsung Internet for most of my web browsing because it has very easy to use ad blockers (and other useful features that are not available in Chrome), and it's usually lower on my battery usage list than Chrome with significantly higher SOT. If I could figure out a way to import all of the passwords I have saved in Chrome to Samsung Internet, I think I would make the switch to it full-time and disable Chrome all together.

 

[SeeBeeEss]

Yeah, I've been noticing that Chrome is extremely high on my battery usage list despite minimal usage. I've restricted background usage for Chrome (in both mobile data and battery usage categories) but it still is a HOG! I use Samsung Internet for most of my web browsing because it has very easy to use ad blockers (and other useful features that are not available in Chrome), and it's usually lower on my battery usage list than Chrome with significantly higher SOT. If I could figure out a way to import all of the passwords I have saved in Chrome to Samsung Internet, I think I would make the switch to it full-time and disable Chrome all together.

That's where I am at. Besides Edge, I have also started to use Brave, and to a lesser extent, Duck Duck Go for similar reasons. Fortunately, I stopped relying on Google for my passwords some time ago and started using Bitwarden (highly recommend it). As soon as I locate and change any Chrome-based websites I have added, renamed and icon-ed to my homescreen, it gets the axe.

 

[notforhire]

I use Edge and Samsung Internet. Every time I get a new device, Chrome gets disabled. Passwords are stored in Microsoft Authenticator, since I move back and forth between my cell and my laptop. I haven't checked my battery drain, but my set up doesn't have me worried about running out of juice.

 

[SyCoREAPER]

If you don't care about syncing and absolutely need Chrome, Cromite is fantastic. Thorium is stupid fast but far behind in builds.

Firefox is fast and efficient. Tons of great forks. Mull, Fennec, Iceraven.

Samsung Internet is great when it doesn't have issues but performance wise is usually among the worst despite the perceived speed.

I use Edge here and there but hate that it's not the same UI for my phone and tablet. swap between it and other browsers.

Stay away from Brave, Opera, as well as any of those Webview Browser (despite Webview Browser being fast).

 

[YankInDaSouth]

Man, Chrome really is just out of control ... It's ridiculous that it is this high up on the list given it's little usage. How can it be higher than Maps that uses GPS and had significantly higher SOT??!!

 

[SeeBeeEss]

Man, Chrome really is just out of control ... It's ridiculous that it is this high up on the list given it's little usage. How can it be higher than Maps that uses GPS and had significantly higher SOT??!!

It looks a lot better once you disable it.

 

[YankInDaSouth]

It looks a lot better once you disable it.

Laziness prevents me from doing it. If I were having subpar battery life I think I'd be more motivated but my battery life has been stellar (even with Chrome taxing it unnecessarily LOL)

 

[SeeBeeEss]

Laziness prevents me from doing it. If I were having subpar battery life I think I'd be more motivated but my battery life has been stellar (even with Chrome taxing it unnecessarily LOL)

I hear you. My battery life has been pretty darned good, as well, and I was feeling pretty generous with overindulging, bloated apps too until I put an 80% charging limit on the battery. Now, I'm not quite so forgiving of any misbehaving apps that eat more than their fair share. Fortunately for my use case, Chrome isn't/wasn't one of those apps that I just can't/couldn't live without. In fact, given that I have regularly used 3 other browsers (2 of which I actually like better than Chrome) it was quite easy (and maybe even a pleasure) to give it the boot.