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I've been using it since the beta and haven't been asked to download once.
I've been using it since the beta and haven't been asked to download once.
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Apple Encouraging Chrome and Firefox Users to Try Safari After Installing Yosemite
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Ill stick to Chrome thanks. To many useful extensions in Chrome to swap to Safari for a negligible speed increase.
huge. this is so ingrained in my browsing habits.
and anyone know of a way to allow safari toolbar bookmarks to show the site icons? just a word as a link instead of a visual cue is detrimental to me. i might try switching for a while if i can pull this off.
I love Chrome's automatic Google translate of foreign pages. For that reason I stick to Chrome.
I used Safari as my backup browser to Chrome, until I downloaded Yosemite. Found it to be horribly slow in download speeds, so I downloaded Firefox as my new backup and haven't touched Safari since.
Glad to see good reviews of Safari comimg in. I can switch to it now! Honestly, ive always used Chrome reluctantly b/c it was the best of the worst basically. Chrome bogs down my machine big time. I was really hoping apple would make Safari competitive one day. Here's to hoping it stays fast!
Btw any word on Safari for Windows?
Btw any word on Safari for Windows?
Apple has not really address the biggest obstacle to widespread adoption of Safari as the browser of choice: colleges/universities that are still dependent on IE, Chrome, and Firefox browsers for access to various parts of websites used by colleges/universities.
Wait, I thought Chrome no longer worked on newer Macs due to it being 16 bit architecture as opposed to 32 bit?? Did I state that correctly?
WOW. One little dialog box requiring one little click to go away and you're about to go POSTAL? I hope you don't live in my city.
This is just another. That Mavericks one came up many times. It's also the modal alerts in the iWork suite on my Mavericks machine just telling me there's an update. Those are actually irritating and I understood the first 10 times they popped up. At least the Yosemite banner in the App Store stay hidden this time around.
If it weren't for the extensions, I would!
No youtube magic actions for safari, and youtube wide does not make up for that.
In chrome, scaling is uniform. In safari, I have to do it per page EACH TIME. I used an extension and it was buggy, and cut a lot of texts esp the comments on threads and on youtube.
Staying with chrome on iMac since i use this 90% of the time, safari for macbook.
No youtube magic actions for safari, and youtube wide does not make up for that.
In chrome, scaling is uniform. In safari, I have to do it per page EACH TIME. I used an extension and it was buggy, and cut a lot of texts esp the comments on threads and on youtube.
Staying with chrome on iMac since i use this 90% of the time, safari for macbook.
I use Safari all the time. It really irks me when something at work or wherever doesn't work right with it. I mean we're talking about the top browser for mobile and tablet traffic.
I could be wrong, but with the same single page open in both (this forum page). This is what I get.
You may be missing some of the processes..... or I might.... not sure
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Yeah I got this message (while using Chrome - cheeky!) clicked on it to see, got a very slow loading window (about a minute), then a message about using my Chrome favorites, which I accepted, then I tried a site and it didn't load at all, Safari froze and I had to force quit. Sorry Safari, you are still slow and buggy.
Every time I see that progress bar struggling to get to the end of the line, which is on every new page, my brain registers a thumbs down for Safari, until after a short while I go back to good old Chrome.
I don't know how Safari can claim to be faster than other browsers since it is invariably slower for me on my iMac. Apple needs to write better code for it, and they need to completely streamline their cloud/sync service.
I have no idea whether a photo, bookmark or email will be deleted on device A if I delete it on device B, or whether my phone will be filled with junk I don't need, so I dare not use it at all. I supposedly have airdrop on all my devices but can never get it to work. Still searching for icloud on my phone - where is it? iTunes/iPhoto/iCloud/Mail/Calendar/System Prefs syncing is a complete mess.
TLDR: I would love to use Safari on my Macs, but unfortunately it's not as good as Chrome.
Every time I see that progress bar struggling to get to the end of the line, which is on every new page, my brain registers a thumbs down for Safari, until after a short while I go back to good old Chrome.
I don't know how Safari can claim to be faster than other browsers since it is invariably slower for me on my iMac. Apple needs to write better code for it, and they need to completely streamline their cloud/sync service.
I have no idea whether a photo, bookmark or email will be deleted on device A if I delete it on device B, or whether my phone will be filled with junk I don't need, so I dare not use it at all. I supposedly have airdrop on all my devices but can never get it to work. Still searching for icloud on my phone - where is it? iTunes/iPhoto/iCloud/Mail/Calendar/System Prefs syncing is a complete mess.
TLDR: I would love to use Safari on my Macs, but unfortunately it's not as good as Chrome.
