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Chrome vs Safari (in terms of speed)

SlCKB0Y said:
And yet amazingly most other browsers are ripping off the minimalist interface they introduced years ago?



Which benchmarks are you referring to? Do the millisecond differences between the major browsers take that much time out of your busy schedule?
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I was talking about initial launching it takes a number of bounces. Only now I have a ssd does it launch instant. Also I don't take any notice of browser benchmarks.....

With regards UI stupid things like not fixing the damn stupid navigation arrows that pop up on screen. Awful bookmark management and restrictive options.
 
SlCKB0Y said:
And yet amazingly most other browsers are ripping off the minimalist interface they introduced years ago?



Which benchmarks are you referring to? Do the millisecond differences between the major browsers take that much time out of your busy schedule?
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Watch out. We got a Google fanboy over here.
 
My vote is for Safari due to the smoothness of scrolling and the multi-touch gestures built into it for back/forward and pinch zooming.

If you gesture back in Chrome, it also works, but Safari gives you that nice animation of a page going back.
 
I like the gestures and zooming in Safari, but for me it's slower and seems to use way more ram than Chrome 28 does.
 
Chrome 28 greatly improved the scrolling. With "Quarts Debug", it shows up to 60 FPS. Used to be capped at 30 FPS.

Ditching Safari on my rMBP now. Finally could sync my tabs between my Linux and Windows workstations.
 
ok.Eric said:
My vote is for Safari due to the smoothness of scrolling and the multi-touch gestures built into it for back/forward and pinch zooming.

If you gesture back in Chrome, it also works, but Safari gives you that nice animation of a page going back.
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It also reloads the page every time you go back which is annoying as hell. Having said that, I still use it because of the multitouch gestures and pinch to zoom.
 
tanyet said:
It also reloads the page every time you go back which is annoying as hell. Having said that, I still use it because of the multitouch gestures and pinch to zoom.
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Actually I just tested the reload every time deal and it doesn't reload every time. I think depending on the type of site, dynamic vs. static determines whether or not it has to reload when you go back.

For example, going back here at the macrumors forums makes it reload since pages are changing every second because of posts being made and threads moving around. A newspaper site which doesn't change unless the editors post a new story, doesn't make it reload when you go back since everything is still the same.
 
personally i have found the new safari to be much more fluent, chrome was great until safari 7 came out but safari 7 blows chrome out the water..
 
SlCKB0Y said:
And yet amazingly most other browsers are ripping off the minimalist interface they introduced years ago?
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Actually, Mozilla did research in to new UI/UX. Google took this research and made Chrome from it, Mozilla were so slow getting Firefox 4 out the door it gave Google a few months head start. Mozilla are finally putting all the last pieces from this research together, have a look at Firefox UX.
 
I use all browsers routinely, as my job demands it. Or rather, my expertise in my job demands a solid understand of how every major browser is behaving with our software at any given time.

So personally, I've felt the ball has shifted back and forth across the last year of browser updates...

...but Safari 7 absolutely takes the cake. It is without a doubt the best browser (even in beta form) available to anyone, anywhere.

Firefox maintains its "pretty good" status through every new version.

Chrome is a pile of crap in terms of usability, UI, and loading speed. To me, it is a typical embodiment of Google-built software. Everything feels like a poorly done web app. Even if its a native app, or an OS.

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Humex said:
HTML5 Test
Google Chrome 28: 463 :D
Safari 7: 385 (Safari 6: 378) :eek:
http://html5test.com/results/desktop.html
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Unfortunately, that doesn't translate at all to user experience.
 
Obviously everyone has a different experience, but must point out that if you spend a lot of time on a browser on research that is most optimized.

Firefox 22 : There's been improvements, consumes a little less but I always heavy. I expect him to revising their most minimalist interface.

Safari 7 : Significant improvement compared to Safari 6 more optimized and fast, but sometimes the point that annoys me is that it is obliged to reload the page you want to return to a page.

Chrome 28 : I do not like the user interface, but I must say it is faster in loading pages.

For the moment, I am on Safari 7 because it is the only one who perfectly mastery the gestures.
 
Lukeit said:
Infact, my mate, I have suggested Opera 15 which has glitches for sure, but is way faster and lighter than any other current browser, let alone the old Opera versions like 11 and 12 (which I have tried and immediately uninstalled!)
The amazing thing in Opera 15 is the RAM usage.... MINIMAL!
I think you should at least try before you commit to comment.
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Not to be an ass, but do most people really care about ram usage anymore?
 
Safari freezes when zooming a lot (on my Air at least). I also hate how it has to reload pages all of the time.

One benefit it does work well with iOS 6+. I love that cloud browsing thing, so if you have an iPhone or an iPad, choosing Safari is easy as you can easily continue what you were reading on the road.

I didn't know chrome used more power. If that were the case, then I'm glad I'm still using Safari.
 
Safari feels lighter, swifter, and well-integrated. Chrome is powerful in cross-platform syncing and extensions, has great performance as well, but getting bloater everyday.

I only hope that Safari get better extensions, now that the development of newer ones seems to have come to a halt. (Enjoying ClickToFlash and LastPass, etc., but I need MOAR.)
 
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