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There’s nothing “magical”, but Safari uses a lot less battery than Chrome.

Safari developers optimize for battery life whereas Chrome developers seem not to care about client-side resource use.

>>jacobo+(OP)
Right, yet, Chrome has an enormous number of Mac users. Apple argue that battery life is a topic so important it's worth banning competitors for but clearly when given the choice users disagree. There are other things more important to them.

>>native+tP
My impression is that most computer users have a limited sense of which software applications are churning through battery, and instead just blame the computer vendor.

That is, if Chrome churns through battery on a Mac laptop, the typical user is going to just think “Apple laptops have poor battery life”, never realizing that switching to Safari would make a significant difference.