it wasnt me
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Chrome Sets Browser Speed Records on M5 MacBook Pro
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The web stopped being worth my time when advertisers found it. Everything that happened since then was cosmetics. It’s sad that Macrumors isn’t on Usenet, but here we are, I guess.
Black_Mage
macrumors 6502a
I don’t care if technically it’s the best browser. I’m team Firefox. If it wasn’t for YouTube, I wouldn’t use any Google product.
conmee
macrumors 65816
I use Safari and only have Chrome and Firefox installed as backups in case something doesn't work with Safari (which I haven't encountered in a few years now).
My scores for Speedometer 3.1 (without changing any settings, and with four tabs already open in Safari):
Chrome - 54.0
Firefox - 44.9
Safari - 40.7
I do notice an ever so slightly snappier response in Chrome and Firefox vs. Safari but not so much that I would change. In day-to-day use, Safari already feels fairly responsive for me.
My scores for Speedometer 3.1 (without changing any settings, and with four tabs already open in Safari):
Chrome - 54.0
Firefox - 44.9
Safari - 40.7
I do notice an ever so slightly snappier response in Chrome and Firefox vs. Safari but not so much that I would change. In day-to-day use, Safari already feels fairly responsive for me.
Any word on how fast it kills your battery and uploads your history to google?
CouponPages
macrumors regular
Speed stats like that mean nothing to me.
1. Privacy / trust. Apple clearly wins here because privacy is in their DNA. Google doesn't even come close. Google's primary reason for making a browser is to farm information about the people who use it.
2. Efficiency. Apple wins again. No other browser conserves resources / battery life better than Safari.
Put it to the test. Open 20 tabs at once in Safari and look at your system's resources. Then close the browser and open the same tabs in Chrome and see it for yourself.
1. Privacy / trust. Apple clearly wins here because privacy is in their DNA. Google doesn't even come close. Google's primary reason for making a browser is to farm information about the people who use it.
2. Efficiency. Apple wins again. No other browser conserves resources / battery life better than Safari.
Put it to the test. Open 20 tabs at once in Safari and look at your system's resources. Then close the browser and open the same tabs in Chrome and see it for yourself.
zarmanto
macrumors 65816
Sooooo... you've been off of the web since 1994? Wow... what an interesting disconnected life you must live.
And how are you posting to this forum, again?
it wasnt me
macrumors 6502a
Chrome does invade your privacy quicker. Not sure that means it is snappy.
Maybe be more power efficient. Safari is much better at not sucking the battery down.
Cool story about a browser I haven't used in years and never will again.
ClaraStahlbaum
macrumors 6502a
In an ideal world I would de-google completely. However it doesn't seem practical and easy to do unfortunately.
macduke
macrumors G5
Every single modern browser is fast enough in 2026. Even Edge.
I know Chrome used to have memory issues that they cleaned up. But doesn't Safari still lead in that area, as well as in terms of battery performance?
At least with Safari I know that I am secure and private. And it's still pretty damn fast. You're talking milliseconds for certain tasks. I imagine the new Safari coming soon will have some improvements as well.
I know Chrome used to have memory issues that they cleaned up. But doesn't Safari still lead in that area, as well as in terms of battery performance?
At least with Safari I know that I am secure and private. And it's still pretty damn fast. You're talking milliseconds for certain tasks. I imagine the new Safari coming soon will have some improvements as well.
ThailandToo
macrumors 65816
Why do people hate Google like they’re evil? I am positive Apple uses customer data after collecting it fully. They have even been caught using contractors to listen to people’s Siri messages.
I think Apple is far more anticompetitive than Google, and that’s a massive risk for consumers. Google has a lot of amazing products and is so far ahead of Apple with AI, that Apple has to use Google’s version of Gemini to make Siri work, because Apple lied so badly about Apple Intelligence and Siri previously, I don’t know we should believe anything they say at WWDC.
Saying goes fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me… I think Google also offers better value in their offerings. I pay $20 monthly for Gemini, I get 5TB of backup storage, use of all the other Google tools, like NotebookLM, all for that $20. Apple charges far more for just the storage.
WilliApple
macrumors 68000
kemal
macrumors 68000
MacOS Chrome installs a 4GB file for AI into the user Library folder. Delete the file and Chrome reinstalls it.
Don"t all the iOS and iPadOS browsers use the same rendering engine in the US? They should all be about the same speed. MacOS is a different story.
On a 9th Gen iPad, I was having a lot of slowdown issues. It was due to ads on a certain website. The browser flavor didn't matter. So I put the iPad on my PiHole for blocking ads and the problem went away. Of course, now, certain other sites detect the ad block.....
I've never had Chrome installed on my MacOS computer. And I use Duck Duck Go for search
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Don"t all the iOS and iPadOS browsers use the same rendering engine in the US? They should all be about the same speed. MacOS is a different story.
On a 9th Gen iPad, I was having a lot of slowdown issues. It was due to ads on a certain website. The browser flavor didn't matter. So I put the iPad on my PiHole for blocking ads and the problem went away. Of course, now, certain other sites detect the ad block.....
I've never had Chrome installed on my MacOS computer. And I use Duck Duck Go for search
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Leon Nash
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Not exactly true. Apple has been forced to allow other engines than WebKit in EU and Japan. And I guess soon in UK also.
Although I think none of the major browser vendors have actually done anything about this yet?
Chrome is fast, that's great, benefits everybody. Hopefully Apple and Firefox step up and do their best to keep up or pass it.
But MAN does Chrome have resource-use issues in my experience.
I have Safari and Chrome open on my work computer at this moment, each with 25 windows open (I closed a few to get them equal), 60 tabs in Safari and 53 tabs in Chrome (yeah, I leave a lotta crap open).
Safari is using 640MB, and its various sidecar processes (Graphics and Media, Web Content, Networking, etc.) that goes up to just a bit under 1GB. It has 30 additional individual-window processes running, which use from 26MB up to 470MB depending on what's in the window. In total, it all adds up to 5GB.
Chrome is using just under 1GB of RAM, Crome Helper another 2GB, four more Chrome Helpers add another 200MB, then there are a whopping 72 Chrome Helper (Renderer) processes (not sure why there are more of these than there are tabs), using from 25MB to 530MB. All-in, this comes out to about 12GB.
CPU use is moderate for both, although cumulatively more Chrome processes are above 1% than Safari windows.
The content of the tabs isn't identical, but cumulatively Chrome is using well over double the RAM of Safari for less tabs, and in fact the only individual processes using more memory than Chrome Helper on my system are Preview with a ton of huge documents open and Window Server.
But this is an M4 Pro mini with 48GB RAM, it's all running fine. The issue is on the Windows machine I have to use sometimes. That machine is a couple years old and "only" has 16GB of RAM, and if I have Chrome open with a single window and maybe 10 tabs consisting entirely of Google Drive, Google Sheets, and Google Docs, the computer intermittently semi-hangs for several seconds at a time. Not just Chrome, the IDE I'm using also just stalls out completely. I know Chrome is responsible because if I close it the computer instantly starts responding again, it only happens when I get up above maybe 5 or 6 tabs, and it's completely repeatable.
I'm not sure exactly what is wrong with Chrome, but the fact that it can render a reasonably-well-specc'd business desktop virtually unusable with a dozen tabs of only Google's own cloud services is mind-boggling.
But MAN does Chrome have resource-use issues in my experience.
I have Safari and Chrome open on my work computer at this moment, each with 25 windows open (I closed a few to get them equal), 60 tabs in Safari and 53 tabs in Chrome (yeah, I leave a lotta crap open).
Safari is using 640MB, and its various sidecar processes (Graphics and Media, Web Content, Networking, etc.) that goes up to just a bit under 1GB. It has 30 additional individual-window processes running, which use from 26MB up to 470MB depending on what's in the window. In total, it all adds up to 5GB.
Chrome is using just under 1GB of RAM, Crome Helper another 2GB, four more Chrome Helpers add another 200MB, then there are a whopping 72 Chrome Helper (Renderer) processes (not sure why there are more of these than there are tabs), using from 25MB to 530MB. All-in, this comes out to about 12GB.
CPU use is moderate for both, although cumulatively more Chrome processes are above 1% than Safari windows.
The content of the tabs isn't identical, but cumulatively Chrome is using well over double the RAM of Safari for less tabs, and in fact the only individual processes using more memory than Chrome Helper on my system are Preview with a ton of huge documents open and Window Server.
But this is an M4 Pro mini with 48GB RAM, it's all running fine. The issue is on the Windows machine I have to use sometimes. That machine is a couple years old and "only" has 16GB of RAM, and if I have Chrome open with a single window and maybe 10 tabs consisting entirely of Google Drive, Google Sheets, and Google Docs, the computer intermittently semi-hangs for several seconds at a time. Not just Chrome, the IDE I'm using also just stalls out completely. I know Chrome is responsible because if I close it the computer instantly starts responding again, it only happens when I get up above maybe 5 or 6 tabs, and it's completely repeatable.
I'm not sure exactly what is wrong with Chrome, but the fact that it can render a reasonably-well-specc'd business desktop virtually unusable with a dozen tabs of only Google's own cloud services is mind-boggling.
AussieStu
macrumors regular
Sweet. My Data can be stolen and telemarketing can call me even faster now.. Cant wait.
Na I moved from this browser and went to Brave and firefox and found spam and found spammers calls and emails dropped by 98%.
Rather not be annoyed by spammers and my data leaked than a 0.3 sec faster browser. Whoop whoop
Na I moved from this browser and went to Brave and firefox and found spam and found spammers calls and emails dropped by 98%.
Rather not be annoyed by spammers and my data leaked than a 0.3 sec faster browser. Whoop whoop