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Google Highlights Recent Speed Improvements Made to Chrome on Mac

Paradoxally said:
Do you mean Split View? I use it, yes.

As for Spaces, I have one space for personal stuff and another for work. Both are color-coded, so I immediately know which one is up, and both have separate profiles so I can have individual logins for common services like Gmail.
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I meant Spaces, sorry. Yeah, I do the color thing too, same reason.

I didn't know about profiles, that's cool, thanks!
 
I might get made fun for this, but i switched to Edge. It's MUCH better than Chrome (I know it's based on Chromium, but it still works better for me), and surprisingly enough, Bing is actually a good search engine now. I find what I'm looking for so much faster than with Google, now. And the BingAI chat is bomb. I love it! Safari is just barebones with nothing to help you as you go on the web.
 
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Chazz12 said:
I might get made fun for this, but i switched to Edge. It's MUCH better than Chrome (I know it's based on Chromium, but it still works better for me), and surprisingly enough, Bing is actually a good search engine now. I find what I'm looking for so much faster than with Google, now. And the BingAI chat is bomb. I love it! Safari is just barebones with nothing to help you as you go on the web.
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Anything is better than Chrome nowadays: Arc, Brave, and Edge off the top of my head. Vivaldi too, if you love to customize.
 
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Jimmy_Banks said:
I do that regularly, any other ideas?

Safari is a massive RAM hog for me, for whatever reason. Macrumours sometimes uses up to 3gb for a single tab..
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same here. hasn't always been that way though. feels like a recent Venture update (in the last 3 months or so) is what triggered this.
 
Chazz12 said:
I might get made fun for this, but i switched to Edge. It's MUCH better than Chrome (I know it's based on Chromium, but it still works better for me), and surprisingly enough, Bing is actually a good search engine now. I find what I'm looking for so much faster than with Google, now. And the BingAI chat is bomb. I love it! Safari is just barebones with nothing to help you as you go on the web.
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Not even Paul Thurrott likes Edge now. Nuff said.
 
May i recommend Orion. Switched to it a while back. All the benefits of Safari (faster than chrome, uses way less ram than both chrome AND firefox) as it uses webkit the same as safari but is way more PRIVACY based and....... you are able to use extensions from both the firefox AND chrome store!

So you can have ublock origin etc running no problem. It also has profiles (the same as firefox containers) that can all be configured separately.

Orion Browser by Kagi

browser.kagi.com browser.kagi.com
 
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greenbreadmmm said:
I've had hangs for months on Safari and finally thought to disable private relay. Night n day better
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Though turning it off helped me as well, but recently Safari has been astonishingly bad. I went as far as doing a clean install cause I didn't believe Safari could be that bad.... Turns out it is.
 
elsumptero said:
okay this is weird. I have an older i9 macbook pro - tried safari 16.4 vs chome 111.0.5563.146.

Safari scored 193, chrome scored 185.

But I timed each with a stopwatch - safari took 49 seconds and chrome took 34. It's really strange that the execution time was so much better in chrome, but the score was lower.

EDIT - after turning off safari extensions, speed is about the same. and updating chrome to latest, they have the same score, same execution time.
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Two things make the speedometer2 benchmark score a lot higher,first is your ISP connection it’s ~480 Mbps for me, second is how fast is your single core score does, M1 SoC performs in that regard quite well.
 
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The way these browsers have become memory pigs and CPU hogs, it’s almost as if the developers know their app is the only thing running on most machines. 😄
 
Realityck said:
And Safari Version 16.5 (18615.2.5.11.2) still feels snappier. Had to say it. :D

Speedometer2 scores
Safari Version 16.5 with M1 24" iMac using MacOS 13.4 beta 2 = 368
Firefox 112 same platform/OS = 276
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Is that your actual experience or are you basing the snappier feeling off the numbers?

I'm asking because I've noticed that the scores don't necessarily correlate with actual browsing speed and comfort, as chrome loads most websites much faster (and better ,if i may) , than safari , in spite of having lower scores

Also what scores do u get on speedometer 2.1 ? Speedometer 2.1 brings parity to gecko as well( previously the test was WebKit and blink optimized iirc)
 
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