Chrome Users?

[smc333]

Am I the only one that thinks Chrome is much faster than Safari? I'd prefer to use Safari since it fits in more UI wise, but Chrome is just so much faster to me on my 2010 i5/8GBRAM. I just recently formatted and it persists, Safari is fast, but Chrome is much faster.

I tried changing the rendering delay for Safari, but that made some webpages render oddly.

 

[MacDawg]

I have switched to Chrome as well
Seems to be less of a memory hog for me at least

 

[Mal]

Safari used to be fast for me, but about a year or so ago it started running really slow. Rather than troubleshoot Safari, I decided just to switch and try Chrome, and I haven't gone back yet.

jW

 

[Hellhammer]

Chrome feels faster for me too. RAM usage seems to be less and I also find it to be less buggy (not as many crashes). Seems to be updated more frequently than Safari as well. Syncing through a Google account is crucial for me as I have 2 Macs and Safari does not offer that.

 

[NutsNGum]

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Chrome spanks almost everything else for speed, but I still need to use the other big 'uns for web stuff. If I didn't, I'd exclusively use Chrome, their developer panel is a cracking wee feature.

 

[Mr. McMac]

Chrome is my browser of choice. It's the fastest, most stable browser, and I like the simple UI over Firefox and Safari's.

 

[peanuthead]

Another vote for Chrome here. Fast and trouble free. I also love the fact that all of my favorites are synced across various computers (both PC and mac).

 

[MikhailT]

Am I the only one that thinks Chrome is much faster than Safari? I'd prefer to use Safari since it fits in more UI wise, but Chrome is just so much faster to me on my 2010 i5/8GBRAM. I just recently formatted and it persists, Safari is fast, but Chrome is much faster.

I tried changing the rendering delay for Safari, but that made some webpages render oddly.

No, it’s documented to be faster than Safari (5). The problem is that Apple doesn’t update Safari as fast as Google does and it is likely that Safari 6 will be much faster.

Latest reports mentions that Safari 5.1 on Lion uses the webkit2 engine, which will make it more stable by separating each tab into a separate process but it is likely to use up more RAM as well. As for the speed, devs said it is faster but how fast is undetermined since it’s not done yet and the optimizations are still yet to come.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

I do not like Chrome on Mac OS X at all. I think the Mac port was poorly thought out, maybe because it's a port... in fact, I can level the exact same complaint against Safari for Windows, too. It's tough to make a web browser that makes everyone happy - there are so many user preferences and design decisions that must be made.

 

[gloryunited]

I use Chrome too because I feel that to be faster than anything.

However, when viewing youtube videos (with HTML5) my MBA still gets very hot (75-80 degrees) and VERY OFTEN I get the "Aw Snap!" error and have to reload the page...

 

[Mantasis]

I can't even run firefox without it completely slowing down my machine, which is mind boggling to me cause this is the 2nd machine this has happened to me on. I've used firefox on a friend's imac and he can run 20+ tabs and no slowdown.... So I stick with chrome.

 

[scottgroovez]

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I love Chrome's speed and streamlined UI. Does everything I want in a browser.