As hard as Ive tried to stick with Safari, I have finally given up. Extensions dont work properly, the passeword managers won't autofill, and frequent hangs and crashes have made me call it quits. I have moved to Chrome, even though I am not a Google fan, because it works. Even though Apple Pay is a little clunky, it is a far better browser experience, that syncs with my work computer. While I hate to "betray" Apple, my mental well being is more important. Nolrdpass and my dark molde extension is working as it should.
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not sure why you were having so many issues, but perhaps some help from this community (or apple directly?) would have been worth pursuing? perhaps the issue is with the extensions & password managers you're using...
i live on safari, and use apple's password app, and apple pay, and an adblocker... and everything works well. either way, chrome is perfectly usable...
i live on safari, and use apple's password app, and apple pay, and an adblocker... and everything works well. either way, chrome is perfectly usable...
You are free to choose whatever work best for you. There is no betrayal. All gadgets are just tools.
Glad to hear Chrome's working better for you.
I mainly use Safari, but I've got Chrome and FireFox installed as backups. Safari normally works fine, but for whatever reasons it doesn't handle PC Magazine article pages well - they can take a long time to load, if they ever load, can be delayed and difficult to scroll and text can disappear, etc... If and when I get aggravated enough, I open Chrome and 'Bam,' it just works.
I've also found having more than one browser is handy when someone else uses the computer occasionally. Our kid uses Google Classroom for school via Safari on my Mac Mini at times. Her school e-mail account doesn't have some sort of privileges to use Google Maps, so when I try it from Safari, it doesn't work. In theory, I should be able to go to Google.com, log out of her account and into mine, but...that didn't work.
Being fairly lazy and not an in-depth techie about such things, I use Chrome when I want to use Google Maps, and that way Safari is ever ready to log her onto Google Classroom without worrying about what account is in use.
So there's a case to be made in some use cases for having more than one browser.
I mainly use Safari, but I've got Chrome and FireFox installed as backups. Safari normally works fine, but for whatever reasons it doesn't handle PC Magazine article pages well - they can take a long time to load, if they ever load, can be delayed and difficult to scroll and text can disappear, etc... If and when I get aggravated enough, I open Chrome and 'Bam,' it just works.
I've also found having more than one browser is handy when someone else uses the computer occasionally. Our kid uses Google Classroom for school via Safari on my Mac Mini at times. Her school e-mail account doesn't have some sort of privileges to use Google Maps, so when I try it from Safari, it doesn't work. In theory, I should be able to go to Google.com, log out of her account and into mine, but...that didn't work.
Being fairly lazy and not an in-depth techie about such things, I use Chrome when I want to use Google Maps, and that way Safari is ever ready to log her onto Google Classroom without worrying about what account is in use.
So there's a case to be made in some use cases for having more than one browser.
I have few issues with Safari but I always have a backup browser (Opera) ready to go if I encounter a site that Safari doesn't play nice with. There are so many decent browser options now nobody should suffer with one that doesn't meet their expectations.
"Apple Safari exposes users to fullscreen browser-in-the-middle attacks"
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...-to-fullscreen-browser-in-the-middle-attacks/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...-to-fullscreen-browser-in-the-middle-attacks/
You might want to try Orion.
It uses the guts of Safari, but it is also capable of using a lot of the extensions available for both Chrome and Firefox. And that means much of the 'nanny' behaviour so often found in Apple apps (we know how you really want the internet to work and how you should use it), is bypassed.
It uses the guts of Safari, but it is also capable of using a lot of the extensions available for both Chrome and Firefox. And that means much of the 'nanny' behaviour so often found in Apple apps (we know how you really want the internet to work and how you should use it), is bypassed.
I’ve been using Orion as my main bowser most of the time since the end of last year. But the bug I reported six months ago still shows as “Planned”
"History database is not cleared" https://orionfeedback.org/d/9178-history-database-is-not-cleared
I reported another one a month ago and it doesn’t seem to have reached anybody
"Custom filter deleted after browser restart" https://orionfeedback.org/d/11032-bug-custom-filter-deleted-after-browser-restart
"History database is not cleared" https://orionfeedback.org/d/9178-history-database-is-not-cleared
I reported another one a month ago and it doesn’t seem to have reached anybody
"Custom filter deleted after browser restart" https://orionfeedback.org/d/11032-bug-custom-filter-deleted-after-browser-restart