Does anyone use Safari Technology Preview over Safari?

[Savage]

Just curious if anyone uses the technology preview as their main browser over regular Safari?

I assume it might be a little faster and generally perform better as it gets the bug fixes and performance improvements sooner?

Or am I wrong and should just continue to use regular Safari?

(Not interested in other browsers.)

 

[appltech]

Safari Technology Preview seems to be created more for developers/testers to test new Webkits, features, etc so they can give feedback; not common people. And I'm not sure it gets those bug fixes and security patches that are more rarely but pushed to regular Safari.
Anyway, I see no problems using the Technology Preview if you wish.

 

[svanstrom]

I assume it might be a little faster and generally perform better as it gets the bug fixes and performance improvements sooner?

It also gets new bugs sooner, and breaks websites; and so on.

It's a technology preview, and not even most developers need that (as we have to focus on what users as a collective actually have, and used to have, not what they might have in the future).

 

[jive turkey]

Safari Technology Preview has always worked better for me than the release Safari itself. If I was forced to choose between these two browsers I would definitely go with STP. For some reason the main Safari brings too many issues to websites I frequent for me to use regularly, but I rarely run into issues when using STP (I'm writing this using Tech Preview now in fact).

It has been this way for years, which doesn't make much sense I guess as one would expect Tech Preview fixes to find their way into the release version, but that is my experience. To be fair, I don't use STP a ton but I would choose it over the release Safari and use it as my default browser if other options weren't available.