Are they comparing apple and apples though? That is in Safari it supports ad blockers natively vs Chrome which has been making it harder and less powerful more and more. So when comparing Chrome with their built in ad blocker vs what is easily possibly with Safari, I have to assume Safari is drastically faster on real world load times? That was the case last year when testing unless things have changed drastically since then?
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zarmanto
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Sometimes, it is indeed deliberate -- but it's not always the developers who make the decisions. Story time!
Once upon a time, in a job many, many years ago in a cubicle far, far away...
The internet was young, and people were just starting to wrap their brains around what it could accomplish. I was directed by management to create a prototype of a web-based implementation of the computer based training modules that I and my fellow developers had been writing in an entirely different tool. The browsers available at that time were Netscape Navigator 3 (the predecessor to Firefox) and Internet Explorer 3 (shudder). I would have been more than happy to make this module work equally in both browsers -- in so much as that was possible -- but that was not management's plan. See, IE had one very specific feature that Navigator could not match, at the time: there was an ActiveX control that enabled the browser to go full screen. They directed me to use that control, and to label the resulting training module as IE only.
(They also directed me to deploy this monstrosity onto a cd-rom, and to use AutoRun to launch it directly into full screen mode.)
Developers aren't always the bad guys... sometimes, they just work for the bad guys.
Grudgingly.
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Blocking ads and trackers, including much of the javascript used to run that junk, also speeds up browser performance.
Yamcha
macrumors 68000
I really like Safari on the Mac. I use Chrome on my phone and Edge on Windows.
Sorry, Google. I don’t care how fast your spyware is. I’m not using it.
Astuces iOS
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racerhomie
macrumors 6502a
What has changed? I saw an M4 Air a couple weeks ago on campus and Chrome was chewing up the battery
d-klumpp
macrumors regular
Maybe we're not so desperate for immediate content that we are willing to compromise our ideals.
freedomlinux
macrumors 6502
Perhaps you are thinking of Brave? Chrome doesn't come with an ad blocker and I'm fairly certain that Google doesn't want it to:
- Google's main business (DoubleClick / Ads) specifically wants to get ads in front of everyone
- Chrome has made changes (Manifest V3 for plugins) that make ad-block extensions less powerful
Ok, it is fast, but the price is too high. Please don't use Chrome!
moritzz
macrumors newbie
Unfortunately every other app gets slow as f***. If your Mac feels suddenly heavily under load, check out https://chromeisbad.com/
what are you doing here then? lol i literally can't imagine spending time on a forum for something i dislike... oof.
I use Dia and Safari. Chrome may be faster. But I don't think that I would notice any difference compared to the ones I use.
This is good news but if you use Apple passwords I have never had success with it working for third party browsers correctly. You have to manual activate it and copy and paste codes for PWA apps and most sites. Used to use brave but it was too much trouble
it wasnt me
macrumors 6502a
actually, from my tests , safari consumes more memory than chrome. they did a lot of optimizations since chrome 128 I think
Steve Adams
macrumors 68000
No problem. In it's stock form on iPadOS it is not. I didn't need to install any third party blockers on either brave and edge to have blocking. That's what I am saying. Have a great one, enjoy your day.
imamacperson
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zarmanto
macrumors 65816
At least... not anymore.
There was a time when some JavaScript code I had developed was instantaneously rendered in Firefox, whereas IE failed abysmally at handling it with anything close to acceptable performance. In order to make my interface work acceptably in both browsers, I had to switch to a post back solution that offloaded the task to the webserver, and discard my previous front-end centric solution... making Firefox noticeably slower... but at least bringing IE into parity.
Today, I suspect most modern browsers would handle that front-end JS without difficulty.
(Edit: correcting memory failure... I'm getting old.)
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Enlightened Doggo
macrumors 6502
Doesn't matter it is still spyware and it degrades the rest of the system. I haven't installed chrome on any devices in a very long time. Probably a decade at this point.