As long as everybody is getting faster, and nobody is getting slower, I don't care who is the fastest.
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Chrome Now Scores Faster Than Safari in Speedometer Benchmark
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I use Chrome for work related things - mainly compatibility and actual working extensions for some of the tools.
It does load faster than safari and overall it’s without any doubts the most safe as it comes to compatibility.
Safari is for private pages and although it’s for me loading pages slower, I can’t put my finger on it but I have the feeling that somehow it renders things better. Probably I am deluding myself but there is something in the UI that makes it more pleasant.
YouTube is the slowest for me in general on Safari (streaming and sometimes loading 4k content) but I don’t really mind
It does load faster than safari and overall it’s without any doubts the most safe as it comes to compatibility.
Safari is for private pages and although it’s for me loading pages slower, I can’t put my finger on it but I have the feeling that somehow it renders things better. Probably I am deluding myself but there is something in the UI that makes it more pleasant.
YouTube is the slowest for me in general on Safari (streaming and sometimes loading 4k content) but I don’t really mind
Odd how the first response to articles like this are always "Now here come the Apple fanboys". It is like the Apple haters hover over the site waiting for new articles to drop.
Safari is fast enough for me. And it doesn't have the crazy cache issue that affects signing into certain Microsoft services (it will keep trying older credentials over and over)
I tend to focus on what is shown in the browser, rather than the browser itself. The single most important thing you can do to speed up the loading and display of web pages is to avoid adverts. I got myself a good content blocker (Wipr) for iOS and macOS, and Safari goes like a rocket. Or, rather, the content that it displays goes like a rocket.
A new version of Chrome that speeds up the display of adverts has zero interest from me.
A new version of Chrome that speeds up the display of adverts has zero interest from me.
What about battery live. Did they improve that or are they still updating all the unused tabs in the background?
Well....
1. Even if you never log in, Google keeps track of you via some other mechanism (IP especially seems to be the lowest hanging fruit when it comes to defining users). Even if you never log in, Google has a "generic profile" built upon your browsing habits, so they can target ads. Firefox with uMatrix will show you just how often Google looks at you online.
2. RAM has always been more of a Firefox issue to me than Chrome. Firefox loves to bleed RAM for some reason and bloat it all up to the point where restarting Firefox is the only solution. Chrome, which I admittedly don't use as often, isn't as RAM hungry as Firefox is with usage.
3. CPU overload. No idea here. When I use Chrome, fans don't come on screaming, so there mustn't be THAT huge of an overload.
That's not the sound of a broken record. That's the sound of a hit single getting air play.
No, no it won’t. Why? Because almost all users do NOT choose a browser because of performance, least of all a 15% increase. They choose browser based on features, reliability, and other things. Only faux techies on back water tech blogs care about such stuff.
For MacOS. But if you want to test fairly they need to use the lowest available version.
Basically the point I have been making. It doesn't matter if it's microseconds faster in a laboratory environment if you can't use it the way you want.
I know, right??? How crazy of people to resist being sold as a commodity! Idiots, I tell you! Imagine people distrusting the alphabet!
Don't forget that Safari is behind Chrome based browsers for battery life, compliance and riddled with Pegasus type zero-click vulnerabilities. Safari is the new Internet Explorer.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macbook-air-m1-battery-life.2336760/
https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html
I'm so sad. I have a MacBook Pro 14" and for the life of me, I can't notice ProMotion anywhere. In Safari, Chrome, the desktop or any app. I actually find the screen to be quite slow to refresh, I see trailing when I move windows and the motion quality (regardless of the browser) on Netflix is way, way below what I get on my OLEC TV (Sony A9S). Is there a switch somewhere to enable promotion (it's already activated in display settings). Do you know a website that lets you watch 120Hz video?
Yup. I am on that boat also. Will see how things go. I believe disinvestment in Safari and web tech in general seams to be the case.
Will see.
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That's close to new Mac upgrade. Anything over single digit I'd take.
I wonder if/when these improvements will come to Edge, which also uses Chromium. I find Safari buggy, with lots of compatibility issues, and Chrome invasive (that non-removable pop-up about making it your default browser is an eye sore) and resource-heavy.
Sure, but as other people suggested here, what about Power Consumption? I bet it’ll drains your battery faster as well.
It's over...disband the Safari team, move them over to other projects...this is the final straw...the other straw was the horrendous UI change announced last year....
