3.6 Impact by different web browsers
It is well known that IE is popular. However, other browsers,
such as Firefox and Chrome, have recently gained favors.
According to [23], IE has 43.8% of user share, Firefox 29.7%,
and Chrome 13.0%. Therefore, we look at the impact of different
browsers on power consumption. Figure 7 shows thepower consumption of IE8, Firefox3.6, and Chrome9.0. It
is seen that we could not find the energy consumption dependency
for any specific browser. On the L3 laptop, IE
consumes more power than other browsers, while Chrome
and Firefox need more energy than IE on the D3 desktop.
On the other hand, the energy efficiency of different browsers
has been examined and reported by Microsoft [21], indicating
that IE9 consumes the least energy, at 11.7 W.