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I'm about as big an Apple fan as anyone, but if you want some powerful web developer tools, Chrome's are way better than Safari's. For me, that means my primary browser is Chrome.

It kind of depends what kind of browsing you want. Chrome is more power-hungry (glad to see they're working on that), but it has just about every plugin and feature under the sun ready to go without you downloading them and unblocking them. Safari is the opposite- it's much more power-efficient, but you'll be downloading plugins and changing around settings to get it to play videos, especially on Sierra. I don't just mean Flash, either; by default, a site using Java on Safari won't load properly unless you change the Internet Plug-In Settings. Or that was certainly the case for me.
 
Really, you want more adds, next to this on TV, Radio, sport-field, computer, phone, down town, everywhere else you look etc? I am trying to avoid getting more adds pushed trough my throat.
They're serving me ads anyway. I'm not getting more ads by using Gmail, Chrome, and whatever else - I'm just getting better targeted ads. Instead of seeing ads for a Mercedes, they show me ads for iPhone cases or whatever. The total amount of ads I see is the same.
 
I'm about as big an Apple fan as anyone, but if you want some powerful web developer tools, Chrome's are way better than Safari's. For me, that means my primary browser is Chrome..
I use Chrome across all platforms as my favorite default browser.

Yes it's resource intense but well worth it for my requirements, a compromise millions of users are willing to make in exchange for Chromes wonderful functionality. We can perform tasks using Chrome that other browsers simply cannot do with the speed and efficiency provided by Google.

Being Apples arch enemy means no conversation about anything Google can occur here without the paranoid types screaming about privacy. Ignorant to the fact that there's a huge data mining industry that already knows far more about them than Google, they cling to fear based assumptions.

I do appreciate recent improvements in Safari, and use it more because of that. It's good to be able to recognize Apples efforts when they make advancements.
 
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Want to use less RAM (and also like 1/10 the energy)? It's called using Safari.

Also, part of the problem is that I go to a site to fill out a simple form, and they've used HTML5/JS/JQuery/CSS/Flash/whateverothercrap to make half an operating system running in my browser that looks like Windows Vista++. I'd like a "lite" mode in Safari enabled by default so I can only enable stuff like that when it's really necessary, but it would be hard to do right. Disabling Flash is the only easy one.
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I don't value my privacy very much. Neither do most people. If Google wants to know what I'm doing on the internet, sure, go nuts.

If anything, I'll benefit from it, since I'll get smarter targeted ads as result. They're going to serve me ads anyway, so it may as well be ones relevant to me.
You don't have an ad blocker? :O
 
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You know how you get physical and digital spam and unsolicited phone calls? You can thank Google for collecting your info and selling it to whoever is willing to pay for it.

Google has a lot more info than just that on you though. They know where you live and work. They know your make, model, year, color, and license plate for your car. They know how much you make. They know when you work.

Someone buys that data from them, and they're now all set to plan how to rob your house or kidnap your children.

Nonsense:

https://privacy.google.com/how-ads-work.html

http://www.androidcentral.com/ask-ac-does-google-sell-your-data
 
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