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Chrome Drops Safari Into Fourth Place Among Browsers
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All I can say is, it'll be a while until I take Safari off my dock. But when it came out, Chrome got a spot right next to it. I certainly hope Apple continues to improve Safari on OSX, the ability of it being native and 64 bit etc. should give it an advantage in the future hopefully. But I definitely like the customization and looks of Chrome.
Nothing compares to the functionality of Safari though. All other browsers seem 3-4 years behind Safari's UI. The only way to get me to switch is if they radically updated the UI or a definite speed advantage. I'm just not that impressed with Chrome so far.
And the fact the it has passed up Safari doesn't surprise me in the least. The advertisement are VERY prominent on Google and Youtube. And with so many Windows users that are frustrated with IE, the advertisements speak directly to them. Smart move on Google's part.
And the fact the it has passed up Safari doesn't surprise me in the least. The advertisement are VERY prominent on Google and Youtube. And with so many Windows users that are frustrated with IE, the advertisements speak directly to them. Smart move on Google's part.
Im using chrome as my main browser on my mac, safari kept locking up on me and I had to force quit it pretty much every day.
That's definitely out of the ordinary. Did you try to find out why?
Why do you choose to ignore data points that makes Safari look bad? This is why it's never good to just blindly follow one company.
On Windows, i use Chrome.. but i don't use Windows anymore. Luckily. On OS X, it's nothing but Safari for me. Nothing else touches Safari. Especially with Glims and ClickToFlash. Unless Chrome becomes faster than Safari, has some useful plugins AND 1Password adds support for it, i'll never switch from Safari. I see ZERO use for Chrome on OS X. IE sucks. Always has. And Firefox is becoming the new IE. Bloated and useless. I also like Camino and Cruz better than Chrome on OS X.
Same for me. Safari on Windows is slower than IE imho. Which is pretty sad... then again. iTunes is faster on Mac than on Windows too.
Like how in my experience Office is slower on Mac than on Windows.
But I guess it all makes sense.
I might have to try Google Chrome. Just to see what it's like.
Until Chrome develops a plugin similar to ClickToFlash, I won't be using it over Safari. That's just something I can't live w/o at this point. Saves battery life and plus you don't have to watch YouTube videos in dreadful flash.
I use Chrome on Windows on occasion. The print function is my biggest gripe. There's no print preview or a shrink to fit option - and it often screws up the margins and goes all out of kilter. That's why I will continue using Firefox on Windows. Granted, Webkit runs circles around Firefox's crap rendering engine, but still...
I use Chrome on Windows on occasion. The print function is my biggest gripe. There's no print preview or a shrink to fit option - and it often screws up the margins and goes all out of kilter. That's why I will continue using Firefox on Windows. Granted, Webkit runs circles around Firefox's crap rendering engine, but still...
If Safari keeps locking up on someone, that's definitely out of the ordinary. I'd be interested to know why. What are you talking about?
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 1.5; en-gb; HTC Hero Build/CUPCAKE) AppleWebKit/528.5+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Mobile Safari/525.20.1)
This may help you:
FlashBlock
FlashBlock for Chrome. Block them all, or be selective with the embedded whitelist manager
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gofhjkjmkpinhpoiabjplobcaignabnl
To use this on mac OS you'll need to use a developer build but the Windows version would be fine. I can't wait for native extension support on the official release
jmj said:
This may help you:
FlashBlock
FlashBlock for Chrome. Block them all, or be selective with the embedded whitelist manager
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gofhjkjmkpinhpoiabjplobcaignabnl
To use this on mac OS you'll need to use a developer build but the Windows version would be fine. I can't wait for native extension support on the official release
I completely agree with LTD here. There is a ridiculous fear and paranoia when comes to Google. The same deal with cloud services. People are worried about things they shouldn't be worries about. People complain about a lack of privacy... well I don't see google releasing your personal information to any bidder out there. They sell information that cannot be traced back to you, so please, to everyone that worries about silly things like this, get off your high horse, you are not that important.
Own Opinion!
Well In my personal experience and opinion,
Ive been using Firefox, Safari and Now Chrome latest versions.
What I can tell is the following.
Faster Browser
Safari
Faster but slower than safari
Firefox (Firefox is better in terms of extensible and plugins /add ons etc.
Chrome, its fast almost as safari, but its new to the contenders, however 1 thing I really like is the seamless integration with the Mac Style but I wont be using it as my primary browser yet.
One thing I thing apple needs to address is FLASH Player on Safari. like somebody else said it doent work properly at all.
Thanks All.
ID
Well In my personal experience and opinion,
Ive been using Firefox, Safari and Now Chrome latest versions.
What I can tell is the following.
Faster Browser
Safari
Faster but slower than safari
Firefox (Firefox is better in terms of extensible and plugins /add ons etc.
Chrome, its fast almost as safari, but its new to the contenders, however 1 thing I really like is the seamless integration with the Mac Style but I wont be using it as my primary browser yet.
One thing I thing apple needs to address is FLASH Player on Safari. like somebody else said it doent work properly at all.
Thanks All.
ID
Well In my personal experience and opinion,
Ive been using Firefox, Safari and Now Chrome latest versions.
What I can tell is the following.
Faster Browser
Safari
Faster but slower than safari
Firefox (Firefox is better in terms of extensible and plugins /add ons etc.
Chrome, its fast almost as safari, but its new to the contenders, however 1 thing I really like is the seamless integration with the Mac Style but I wont be using it as my primary browser yet.
One thing I thing apple needs to address is FLASH Player on Safari. like somebody else said it doent work properly at all.
Thanks All.
ID
I don't quite get that "review." Firefox is "faster but slower than Safari", and Chrome is "almost as fast as Safari"??
With ClickToFlash you can play YouTube videos in QuickTime. Firefox (and Camino) flash blocker works well, but it doesn't have the QuickTime feature. I think the buttons and favicons in Chrome on OSX are a bit clunky.
Every single one of the Windows users in my office uses iTunes on their PC at home. ALL of them. They use it because they like it. ALL of them. They tell me so. Apple has absolutely no rational motivation to make their applications "as bad as Microsoft did the Mac version of Office." Apple produces Windows versions of their software in order to lure Windows users into the possibility of considering a Mac and to make money.
Quicktime, iTunes, and Safari run quite sufficiently in Windows. You are simply wrong.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 1.5; en-gb; HTC Hero Build/CUPCAKE) AppleWebKit/528.5+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Mobile Safari/525.20.1)
I think there is a YouTube html5 extension to force YouTube to use html 5 (YouTube HTML5-ifier).
jmj said:
I think there is a YouTube html5 extension to force YouTube to use html 5 (YouTube HTML5-ifier).
This is entirely the point. Your privacy is worth more than a few free internet services. More to Google and much, much, much more to you.
The price of anything from Google is too high.
I'm hoping the success of Chrome on Windows will pave the way for Apple to do Win Safari properly (not just well enough for iTunes to function, thanks Mr Jobs.)
Usage went up fourfold? Does that mean 8 people are using Mac Chrome now?
I've also installed Chrome on OS X. I'm very satisfied with it.
With Safari I had this annoying bug: Audio in Flash movies didn't play after I watched or listened to something in iTunes, QuickTime or VLC. I'd have to restart Safari before I could hear any sound being played.
This annoying problem does not exist in Chrome. So people who say it's Adobe's fault, not Apple's; explain this to me. Why does Flash run without problems in Chrome and not in Safari?
With Safari I had this annoying bug: Audio in Flash movies didn't play after I watched or listened to something in iTunes, QuickTime or VLC. I'd have to restart Safari before I could hear any sound being played.
This annoying problem does not exist in Chrome. So people who say it's Adobe's fault, not Apple's; explain this to me. Why does Flash run without problems in Chrome and not in Safari?
I hear you. It's not that I feel that I am so important, but that Google is not very transparent about what they do with the information they collect.
Let me try and explain just one of the nightmare scenarios that worry me considering how Google collects information. Let's say that I have a Google GMail account. To set the account up, I use my real name and so on. Google keeps the ip address for 18 months that was used to create the account.
In my house there are 6 computers that I, my wife and our 4 kids use. Every-time a search is made the ip is tracked. Almost every website you go to uses Google Analytics, so the ip is tracked. Now Google wants me to use their DNS server which will associate my ip address to every website one of the six computers goes to.
Google can link/look up my real name and info from GMail and link it to every search made in my house and every website visited. So far, no harm.
On my computer I make a search for the uses of Vaseline. I want to use it to grease the shaft of my spin-wheel mouse.
My daughter makes a search for a college course for the dangers of anal sex.
My wife uses Google search, and Maps, for the best parks to take the younger kids.
My son searches for the lyrics for "Rape Me" by Nirvana.
Still no harm.
Two weeks later a child is abducted in our neighborhood. The child is sodomized and murdered. The police have no suspects, so they serve Google with a warrant under the Patriot Act looking for people in my area that may have been looking for information to perpetrate this heinous crime.
Google returns a search word list with my name with the following search terms used, vaseline, anal, sex, kids, parks, rape.
They show up at my door and I spend $10k plus defending myself for something I never even thought about.
Is it far fetched? Who knows, Google will not talk about it. Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, made some controversial remarks recently about no rights to privacy and the Patriot Act.
So we know that google tracks the ip addresses and can link all the web visits, searches, maps, and many more all to your real information that you gave them when you signed up for a Google account.
There are many more scenarios that I am not willing to put myself in by blindly adopting every Googlie thing that comes out.
As a test, when I first used Gmail and saw all the ads based on what content I had in my mail, I sent my brother mail about Dad and his SEX-pertness - he was a therapist.
I used many variations and included the word SEX in every sentence. I also sent it to myself from a Yahoo mail account. NO sponsored links resulted - not one. Wonder what's going on with that.
As a test, when I first used Gmail and saw all the ads based on what content I had in my mail, I sent my brother mail about Dad and his SEX-pertness - he was a therapist.
I used many variations and included the word SEX in every sentence. I also sent it to myself from a Yahoo mail account. NO sponsored links resulted - not one. Wonder what's going on with that.
probably they filter adult materials like they do for search results, ...