Chrome for M1 Macs Runs Up to 80% Faster Than Rosetta 2 Version

[Emanuel Rodriguez]

I told you guys Apple was innovating with silicon, but people consistently dismissed it. Their chips are and have been, amazing. The A series chips are what iPhones such a joy to use for such a long time.

Anyone who understood the underlying technology at play here, had no doubt Apple could compete with Intel, especially given the iPad and iPhone benchmarks leading up to it. Most people have this perception that phone = slower than laptop and laptop = slower than desktop, but the world is just not so black and white, and it's more about where the bottleneck is than whether or not a device is generally "fast" or "slow". Apple pairs this excellent silicon in a device with better thermals than a phone or tablet, with SSDs in all their current offerings, so naturally the result will be fast, as there are no bottlenecks for most people.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with their high-end desktops. The Mac Pro will be the thing to watch.

 

[killr_b]

I’ll take a look at Ublock Origin then. I have no interest running Google spyware on my machine. That and the fact that Chrome does not respect Apple’s design guidelines is why Chrome is not an option. Thanks for the heads up!

The point is, you can't run uBlock Origin or any real ad blockers on Safari.
Also, again as far as I know, Chrome has the same "do not track cookies" functionality that Safari has, but you have to toggle it on.

 

[FNH15]

The point is, you can't run uBlock Origin or any real ad blockers on Safari.
Also, again as far as I know, Chrome has the same "do not track cookies" functionality that Safari has, but you have to toggle it on.

Depends on what you mean by “real” adblockers. I have no problem supporting websites with ad revenues (so, for example, I have ad blocking turned off for Arstechnica), and 99% of the time I don’t see ads on other websites. YouTube does not play well with any adblockers in my experience - takes a couple of reloads (I’ve tested in Firefox, Edge, Safari). Safari’s cross website prevention and built-in tracking prevention takes care of the rest.

I’ve not come across another browser since Camino which respects Apple’s design guidelines - the Chrome and Firefox UIs are nonstandard and are awful. If I want inconsistent / crappy UIs, I’ll use Windows and Android.

 

[killr_b]

Depends on what you mean by “real” adblockers. I have no problem supporting websites with ad revenues (so, for example, I have ad blocking turned off for Arstechnica), and 99% of the time I don’t see ads on other websites. YouTube does not play well with any adblockers in my experience - takes a couple of reloads (I’ve tested in Firefox, Edge, Safari). Safari’s cross website prevention and built-in tracking prevention takes care of the rest.

I’ve not come across another browser since Camino which respects Apple’s design guidelines - the Chrome and Firefox UIs are nonstandard and are awful. If I want inconsistent / crappy UIs, I’ll use Windows and Android.

lol Ok. But youtube works just fine with any other browser and ad block combo that isn't apple.

 

[kc9hzn]

I have no problem with blocking YouTube ads on Safari on iOS. The difference in how the ad blockers work is that ad blockers on Chrome are an extension running in Chrome’s memory space. They have access to each page you navigate to unless you specifically block them. In theory, this could allow malicious developers access to secure pages like your bank account. Safari’s approach is to provide a means for ad blockers to provide a list of rules, then Safari itself does the blocking. The advantage of Chrome’s approach, beyond simplicity, is the ability to hide or block elements actively by modifying the page with JavaScript or other means, as opposed to merely blocking them. The downside (besides performance) is the aforementioned privacy issues.

 

[mrpelegrini]

What are the advantages of Chrome over Safari? I heard that it drained batteries fast. That is why I deleted it from my machine.

I’ve truly tried to moved from Chrome to Safari, found a hard time finding replacements for the extensions I use, and also noticed very poor performance in some edge cases, for instance a GitHub PR with 300 file changes, or Jenkins pages... all slower than Chrome.

But the main reason are extensions, maybe I’ll give it another try after moving to M1