I ended up switching from Chrome to Safari last year because scrolling is so damn choppy on Chrome, but incredibly smooth on Safari. I'll switch back in an instant if they can fix that because I'm sick of how adblock on Safari doesn't block ads in videos like Chrome does.
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Google Improving Chrome for OS X Performance to Better Rival Safari
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No we won't. It will make us hate it even more. Chrome on the Mac is not very efficient.
I like the performance in Safari but the UI of Chrome (like someone else said earlier).
But I'm sticking with Chrome for when I'm plugged in on a Mac (90% of the time) and even half the time I'm unplugged because I jump between different OSes weekly (Windows, OS X, iOS, Android) and having the ability to sync across all these devices is great. Firefox is the alternative but I prefer Chrome.
But I'm sticking with Chrome for when I'm plugged in on a Mac (90% of the time) and even half the time I'm unplugged because I jump between different OSes weekly (Windows, OS X, iOS, Android) and having the ability to sync across all these devices is great. Firefox is the alternative but I prefer Chrome.
I'm running it on an iMac so battery life is not an issue for me... Occasionally on rare instances, I do notice high CPU usage. But my work uses Google Apps so chrome is obviously ideal for that. Also, Chrome has way many more web apps that safari doesn't. And most companies who make apps for their service make them for Chrome, not Safari.. which in my opinion is huge.
As a developer(web apps) Chrome's dev tools are some what unmatched. But it is a HUUUUUGE memory hog.
This about sums it up
This about sums it up
Which is why Google have listed the bugs/issues and the fixes - so the admission of problems are straight from the horse's mouth.
I recently made the switch from Safari to Chrome as I wanted to download a Chrome extension, and decided to try Chrome as my default browser. I immediately noticed my battery life was nearly half of what it is when I use Safari. Normally I can watch 2 full length netflix movies on Safari (sometimes across two days when I am not using my laptop for anything else at that time), with Chrome I got my battery low warning with 20 minutes left in the first movie. As for browsing the web, you probably won't be able to see a noticeable difference. I did find that Chrome is better at streaming 4k 60fps video on YouTube, but that was the only place I could tell a difference. But to me the battery life change was too significant to keep using it as my main browser. This news of them enhancing it might just make me try it out again when it hits the developer channel.
According to the Apple developers center they are going to be launching a new Safari Extensions gallery, so I suspect that means they will be introducing new APIs for developers to write Safari extensions.
Try using chrome on a macbook ON BATTERY.
I'm not a Chrome user but I see Firefox on OSX struggle similarly on amazon.com, sometimes even pegging over 100% CPU utilization (on a multicore i7) for several seconds at a time making all tabs unresponsive. I think it's great that Google is working on tuning Chrome performance for that site, but I suspect the issue actually lies with Amazon.
I'm a sucker for system integration, which is why I use stock apps for all the basics like email, web browsing, calendar and contacts, photos, etc.
Within my Mac and across my devices it all works so nicely that a 3rd party solution would have to do something pretty extraordinary to have me break that integration. I'm honestly not sure what that would even be.
Plus, Safari is snappier.
Within my Mac and across my devices it all works so nicely that a 3rd party solution would have to do something pretty extraordinary to have me break that integration. I'm honestly not sure what that would even be.
Plus, Safari is snappier.
I recently switched back to using Chrome from Safari but only for one feature I really need and wish Safari offered and that is to remember the audio volume of video playback (for videos on sites like youtube, facebook, news, etc.) and keep that the audio volume for the next video and between launches. The reason is I use volume leveling to listen to my music library and this tends to drop the level by at least 50% across the board to keep all tracks about the same (saves me from having to adjust the volume of every song) but then when I hit a website video BOOM and it just comes blaring out like no other scaring the S out of me and throwing me into a panic to find the volume control which is always hit or miss on those flash video frames. I would like them all to just be set to 50% and I would never have an issue. Well Chrome does this, it remembers the setting and Safari doesn't. I much prefer Safari otherwise.
God, yes please - I use Chrome for web development and every few minutes it freezes for no good reason!
This. It's my number one reason for going with Chrome. No matter the OS I use, I get consistency by using Chrome. Also the extensions are great.
Likewise. I actually prefer safari over the others. It doesn't matter if it's a mobile browser or desktop...I just like safari.
I'm glad to hear that they're making the Mac a priority; I know many Mac users who rely on it.
As for me, I only use Chrome when I rarely need Flash or for school websites and sites like Pearson that often don't recommend Safari. I've never understood the why so many people (even on this forum) who say that Safari is a "meh" or a "kiddie" browser. It's sleek, fast, and gets the job done. I runs fine with 5 to 25 tabs and seems to be the lightest browser for me.
As for me, I only use Chrome when I rarely need Flash or for school websites and sites like Pearson that often don't recommend Safari. I've never understood the why so many people (even on this forum) who say that Safari is a "meh" or a "kiddie" browser. It's sleek, fast, and gets the job done. I runs fine with 5 to 25 tabs and seems to be the lightest browser for me.
If you're clearing out Safari's caches, IIRC, that will also reset the site-specific volume settings. Why not just use the OS level settings, or if it absolutely necessary, set videos on a click-to-play basis?
Safari definitely does generally feel "snappier" and lighter on resource usage for me in general, but the additional features from Chrome simply can't be beat, whether it be extensions, development tools, or stability. I tend to have both active at all times depending on what I'm doing, and battery life doesn't seem to have been an issue for me (no videos, of course).
Let them make all the improvements that they want, but I'm not going to use it. I like the whole widget approach that Apple has put together. I only use Chrome for very special purposes, but not as my main browser.
Chrome does work with handoff, but it shows it on the phone as being in Safari. If I swipe up from the home screen on my iPHone it'll launch the Chrome for Mac page I am currently on, but in Safari for iOS.
Curious for those who work back and forth between Windows & Mac, but use Chrome on Windows and Safari on Mac, how do you deal with syncing bookmarks, history, passwords, etc.?
Also, I always found Safari's tab management to be less than ideal compared to Chrome, especially the lack of favicons to easily visualize what is on each tab.
Also, I always found Safari's tab management to be less than ideal compared to Chrome, especially the lack of favicons to easily visualize what is on each tab.
I don't want 'on par'. Really, shouldn't you set your goals higher and go for 'better'? Also, some of those results are still horrible compared to Safari... but I guess that's better than nothing.
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