Greenfox : a Firefox addon to measure web energy consumption

Submitted by François Le Quéméner on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 19:16

Green Code Lab is proud to announce that Greenfox, the Firefox addon that measure your CPU consumption, is out!

GreenFox was initially developed for GreenChallenge 2010 of USI school (french university) and has been forked by the Green Code Lab team. The aim of this extension is to measure the CPU consumption of the Firefox process, in milliseconds, in a period given by the user.

The millisecond unit (ms) has been chosen because it is the unit used by Operating Systems to measure a process consumption (more information on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_time).

Thus, GreenFox can measure the CPU consumption between two points. This is very usefull to:

  1. compare the CPU use of two sites, or of two versions of the same site
  2. convert this temporal consumption (ms) in energetic consumption (kWh) through a given energetic model, or by measuring initially the idle consumption.

You can download the addon on Mozilla dedicated page:

DOWNLOAD

The source code is published under GPL v3 license and is also on Github.

Technologie: 
Web
OS Windows
OS LINUX
Tags: 
greenfox firefox
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Actualité Green Code Lab

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