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Chrome Now Scores Faster Than Safari in Speedometer Benchmark
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….And hardly notable to a non-techie user who has no idea what ‘bench-mark’ speeds even refers. This article is just noise to ‘one-up’ over the other.
I've used it and thought it was super slow and clunky as hell...am i doing something wrong. And I had to click the icon everytime.
Safari still makes too much money for Apple (e.g., the Google search default deal) to abandon it unless they come up with a new similarly lucrative deal with Google first. Something like making Chrome the default browser which itself would have Google as default search.
Im sorry google, but you lied again...its not faster, but also consume more battery life
Any one getting the same result ?!
Any one getting the same result ?!
As they should. I'll never use a Google product again. Then again, I don't use Safari either. Been on Firefox for the past few years...but who knows how long that will hang on.
Yeah, about that, it comes at expense of battery on MacBooks.
So until they fix that, still sticking with Safari. (Which is slowly catching back up with Chrome)
never had issues with Safari on my mac...beautiful battery life, snappy and so on
I use Chrome for the websites Safari doesn’t work with.
But I don’t prefer it. I just have to use it sometimes.
But I don’t prefer it. I just have to use it sometimes.
But at what cost? Does it still eat RAM and battery life like there is no tomorrow? It's not like you need your browser to have bleeding edge speed if it's not going to be efficient. And that's not even to get into the obvious privacy concerns.
I only open Chrome when I have to for web development to test things. Otherwise I close out of it when I'm done. Same as I do with Adobe apps, lol.
I only open Chrome when I have to for web development to test things. Otherwise I close out of it when I'm done. Same as I do with Adobe apps, lol.
We are in Macrumours. And the use case we are discussing here is: Which is the fastest browser for me as a Mac user?
This benchmark says it's Chrome, or at least the Chrome is faster than Safari.
Everything else is irrelevant.
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I noticed Chrome finally fixed the high CPU utilization on Intel macs. My 2017 Macbook Pro's fans no longer come on when I have Chrome open.
Easy to be fastest when you can predict what obstacle is likely to come nextWell....
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.
So, not once in the past few years have I ever thought to myself, "Wow, I need a faster browser!" I have though things like, "I need a browser that doesn't leak information to slag advertising companies, like, um, Google." And I've thought, "I need a browser that is really memory efficient and processor efficient so that all those slag HTML pages with oodles of dynamic advertising don't run down my battery like crazy and cause a spinning beachball for all my other apps because a simple news article sucked down 2 GB." But I've yet to have any troubles with speed.
When I read your post the first time, I thought you said CPU overlord. ?
Didn't you know how it once cool to trash everything MS, now it's cool to trash everything Google?
"Chrome: now able to send all your personal data to Alphabet at lightning speed!"
I mean, yeah! They can make it as fast as they want but we’re gonna keep harping on the until you all stop selling yourselves to the corporate machine ?
sounds like intel - our new chip is faster than the M1. yes, but at what cost? be faster with Better battery than safari and then come talk to me