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FrankySavvy

FrankySavvy

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So I tried to listen to a youtube video in one tab in Safari and then change to another tab to browse the web and The video would always pause.

Is there anyway to do this in safari?,

I downloaded chrome and chrome will allow you to play a youtube video in one tab and allow it to keep playing while you browse in another tab.

Alot more convenient but I love the look of safari better.
 
how is the speed of chrome compared to safari? i was thinking of doing the same thing on my iPad and making chrome my default browser
 
Safari executes JavaScript faster than chrome. This due to that Safari has Nitro wich compiles JavaScript into native machine code, rather than interpreting it. Third party apps are not allowed to to this due to greater risk for jailbreaking.
So JavaScript/html5 heavy sites will always be noticeably slower in chrome than in safari.
 
ThreeD said:
Is Crome as fast äs Safari? Why are using it over Safari?
Thanks
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-Not as fast on iOS (Faster on Mac OS)
-Bookmark sync that actually works
-Bookmark sync works across Windows/android
-Allows you to request desktop mode of any site
-allows you to load any tabs open on your iOS device on any other device
-syncs passwords and autofills forms (apple's sync services are unreliable for me, and restricted to apple oses)

And yes, if you stick to google cloud stuff (drive, hangouts, maps, YouTube) then:
-Links open in chrome instead of safari
-signing on once in Chrome will sign on in all the google apps on your iOS device
 
tomaseriksson said:
Safari executes JavaScript faster than chrome. This due to that Safari has Nitro wich compiles JavaScript into native machine code, rather than interpreting it. Third party apps are not allowed to to this due to greater risk for jailbreaking.
So JavaScript/html5 heavy sites will always be noticeably slower in chrome than in safari.
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This. This alone is reason enough for me to use Safari over chrome. For some tangible evidence, try running the SunSpider javascript benchmark on both (For some reason I could only get the results page for the latest version to load and show the score properly in Safari - the results page was empty in chrome. Using version 0.9.1 works fine on both, though.). I get 430ms on Safari, and 1469ms on Chrome (lower is better). Pretty huge difference in javascript performance.
 
Sounds Good said:
Oh, I see. I thought you figured out how to make it the default browser within the device.
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Unfortunately, this can't by done on current iOS. But once the Jailbreak is out for iOS7, there is a tweak that allows you to set your default browser to another browser. This is one of the first tweaks I'll be downloading and installing (when it's out).

Just out of curiosity, how is it that Apple can get away with restricting use to only it's browser as the default in it's OS, yet when Microsoft tried that with Windows and Internet Explorer a number of years ago, they got taken to court for Anti Competitive practices, and were forced to allow users to decouple the IE from Windows? Just curious as to why this is different, and no one has complained about it with Apple?
 
kmichalec said:
Just out of curiosity, how is it that Apple can get away with restricting use to only it's browser as the default in it's OS, yet when Microsoft tried that with Windows and Internet Explorer a number of years ago, they got taken to court for Anti Competitive practices, and were forced to allow users to decouple the IE from Windows? Just curious as to why this is different, and no one has complained about it with Apple?
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Because iOS doesn't dominate any market share.
 
I really like Chrome and use it frequently. But the thing that makes me keep coming back to Safari is how they both handle bookmarks. In Safari, they are at the top of my screen for one-tap access. On Chrome, it's tap to open bookmarks page, tap to open a particular folder, tap to choose bookmark. Not a huge deal, but it's the reason I personally use Safari most often.
 
kmichalec said:
Why do you say that? In the tablet market, Apple has a 60-70 percent market share.
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60-70%? I suggest you read up on the Microsoft case you are referring to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.

Apple's iOS presence in mobile is nowhere close to being a monopoly of any kind.

In case it's not obvious:
First, Microsoft's share of the market for Intel-compatible PC operating systems is extremely large and stable. Second, Microsoft's dominant market share is protected by a high barrier to entry. Third, and largely as a result of that barrier, Microsoft's customers lack a commercially viable alternative to Windows.
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and
The fact that there is a multitude of people using Windows makes the product more attractive to consumers. The large installed base... impels ISVs (independent software vendors) to write applications first and foremost to Windows, thereby ensuring a large body of applications from which consumers can choose. The large body of applications thus reinforces demand for Windows, augmenting Microsoft's dominant position and thereby perpetuating ISV incentives to write applications principally for Windows... The small or non-existent market share of an aspiring competitor makes it prohibitively expensive for the aspirant to develop its PC operating system into an acceptable substitute for Windows. (III.39–40).
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I'm surprised you think Apple's position in the mobile market is similar at all. Maybe you've been spending too much time on MacRumors. :)
 
I'd been a loyal chrome user since the day it was released for iOS. But since I updated my MBA to maverick chrome has been constantly crashing. So I've forced myself to use safari exclusively for about a week now on my Mac, iPad and iPhone and I don't think I'll go back to chrome. I've been really happy with safari.
 
fanchee said:
I really like Chrome and use it frequently. But the thing that makes me keep coming back to Safari is how they both handle bookmarks. In Safari, they are at the top of my screen for one-tap access. On Chrome, it's tap to open bookmarks page, tap to open a particular folder, tap to choose bookmark. Not a huge deal, but it's the reason I personally use Safari most often.
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This is what I dislike most about chrome too. Otherwise I prefer it to Safari.
 
kmichalec said:
Unfortunately, this can't by done on current iOS. But once the Jailbreak is out for iOS7, there is a tweak that allows you to set your default browser to another browser. This is one of the first tweaks I'll be downloading and installing (when it's out).

Just out of curiosity, how is it that Apple can get away with restricting use to only it's browser as the default in it's OS, yet when Microsoft tried that with Windows and Internet Explorer a number of years ago, they got taken to court for Anti Competitive practices, and were forced to allow users to decouple the IE from Windows? Just curious as to why this is different, and no one has complained about it with Apple?
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My guess is because iOS is only available on Apple products/hardware.
 
On my Galaxy SIII I used Chrome.
on apple products I've been using Safari almost exclusively. It just seems better optimized in regards to speeds and battery life.
 
I use Chrome almost exclusively on my Mac Pro and laptops, however I find Chrome a big buggy on my Air, with Safari being the best integrated of the browsers on my idevices.
 
is Chrome on iOS better than Chrome on Android? Chrome is my browser of choice on my laptop but I couldn't stand it in Android because it would only let me go back 2 or 3 times before it would just start looping through the last 3 pages I have been on....Really frustrating when you are in a search and click a link then another link then another link then try to get back to your search.
 
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