Safari vs Chrome 64-bit

For me Chrome 64 loaded pages quicker, but scrolling was no where near as smooth as Safari. Go to theverge.com for example. The scrolling in Safari is buttery smooth when the page is loading. Chrome 64 stutters.

I see no reason to. For me Safari works well and I'm happy with it. On the PC, I use chrome, but so far nothing beats Safari on OS X.

Chrome 64-bit is fast, but Safari is far smoother and much easier on the battery. Plus, it has iCloud integration.

I find Chrome much quicker in page loading. It also allows actions before everything is loaded while Safari has to load an entire page before it is useful. I find Chrome much better for anyone not on very fast internet and/or opening many tabs even often. Safari is perfectly smooth once loaded. Chrome still suffers much more choppy scrolling with frame drops on a Retina display.
That is how I would recommend the current chrome. BTW I like the UX much more on Chrome and always found it hard to deal with Safari.

64bit Canary build v39 seem much smoother and seems to bring Chrome on equal footing with the only thing Safari has over it.

Here a comparison for just the flags page scrolling up and down on Retina (more space aka 1680x1050 and chrome content zoomed 150% // I found zoom settings and more space options make a difference in performance, best for retina and 100% performs better)

Chrome 38 (32bit)


Canary 38 - 64bit

The fps is the current one right the instant compared to the gauge of apple dev tools some use for Safari benches. That gauge doesn't clearly show small differences in dropped frames and is imo useless for measurering what it looks like to the naked eye. Like 30fps avg would look vastly different.

Canary looks like Safari with practically no dropped frames. C38 looks even worse on some pages but can also look much better. I tried to find a situation in which it clearly shows a difference. But the sample is from the same site with the same prefs. C38 looks similar when run on an external non retina display.

Chrome has a couple of advantages I can't live without.

• iPhone - Changing tabs on iOS is much better on Chrome - edge swipe
• Desktop - Keyword search is amazing on Chrome, since you just start typing an address and hit tab (e.g. you type "ama", hit tab, and get an Amazon search function)

I'd rather use Safari because of built-in integration advantages, but I've tried to switch multiple times and the usability of Chrome is just much higher for me.