Opera browser adds 50% battery life! -- Gullible much?

Opera Software today brings a new power-saving mode. The browser-maker claims it can add 50% to your laptop's battery life -- but is that credible? Err, NO!

Certainly the underlying software tweaks will make some difference, but the tests Opera's quoting are skewed and unscientific. I can't help thinking this is just part of the company's strategy to get bought by the Chinese for more than a billion dollars.

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