lollol Yes, I'm sure the Chrome team is absolutely petrified by Safari.
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Google to 'Dramatically' Improve Chrome Impact on Mac Battery Life
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Try Edge. It's Chrome but without the battery drain.
You can't get past the "Safari is using sufficient energy" particularly when the use of some websites like Money3's background draws this. Safari should be intelligent enough to block part of a page that draws more than it needs to... Perhaps that could be a good hobby for Apple to test.
With Microsoft Edge, why do you need Chrome? Chrome is spyware.
On windows I use Chrome, which isn’t too often. But on iOS i use Safari and have not had any issues or find any faults with is where i need to switch to chrome. It works perfectly and i trust it a whole lot more than Chrome. They both do what I need them to do, but trust is something that Chrome never inspires.
I gotta give it to Microsoft here. They made a good job with Edge. At least on my gaming PC I am enjoying it.
Quite smooth and fast.
It’s a desktop so I cannot judge the battery impact though.
Chrome has really gone down hill. I use Chrome on my Mac mini running Mojave and when I access you tube comments won’t load. I’ve tried everything and noticed many other people having the same issue. It doesn’t matter if your signed on or out of YouTube comments just won’t load. The weird thing is if you open Chrome in incognito tab and go to YouTube the comments all of a sudden load. So weird.
I’m trying to move back to using Safari on my Mac.
I’m trying to move back to using Safari on my Mac.
This is welcomed news for those of us who use chromebooks and MacOS devices... all 3 of us. 😅
Half of internet traffic is on mobile now. Most people on cell phones don't selectively block and unblock sites.
Does anyone know how to install ad blocker on Safari? I tried downloading it (as an App and as an extension) but it doesn't work. I'm definitely sure its not the ad blocker or website's issue, because the same ad gets blocked when I use Chrome.
On Chrome I just get ad blocker on the Chrome Web Store and it works perfectly well. The lack of ad blocker is stopping me from moving to Safari
On Chrome I just get ad blocker on the Chrome Web Store and it works perfectly well. The lack of ad blocker is stopping me from moving to Safari
Google can make Chrome the fastest and most efficient with power but I still wouldn't use it.
Google, by their very nature, isn't in this game to prevent tracking me and putting my privacy first.
Google, by their very nature, isn't in this game to prevent tracking me and putting my privacy first.
Honestly, as a web developer, I feel like Safari is to the point where I use it as my primary browser. Obviously I also have Chrome, FireFox and Edge running when I test sites towards the end of the process. But I prefer Safari because the rendering is fast, the power usage is low, and it syncs with iOS. Also I feel like the Magic Mouse gestures are more consistent.
With so many great Chromium based browsers like Brave and Microsoft Edge, I'm finding less and less reason to install/use Chrome. Chrome is turning into the old IE. Its marketshare makes many websites targeting Chrome for compatibility (instead of the standard HTML), thus some websites becomes Chrome specific, just like the internet way back in IE days. Not a good trend.
Anyway, any improvement is a good thing. Maybe Google finally felt a bit threatened since Microsoft pushed the new Edge.
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Anyway, any improvement is a good thing. Maybe Google finally felt a bit threatened since Microsoft pushed the new Edge.
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Exactly. The new Edge is the best thing ever happened on Windows. I no longer need to download/install Chrome.
It’s literally Chromium. It’s the exact same browser engine, just with your data sent to Microsoft.
If they then made it less intrusive (Agent). I might consider installing it and using occasionally)
This. Brave even works with Chrome extensions.
Came in here to see why some Mac users would even need to use Chrome, so it was nice to be educated on its use for web development.
I guess from an end-user standpoint [i.e., just browsing and doing typical "internet things"], Safari should be good enough for most use-cases.
I guess from an end-user standpoint [i.e., just browsing and doing typical "internet things"], Safari should be good enough for most use-cases.
I'm not really patronizing them if I'm blocking the ads.
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uBlock Origin has sometimes not been blocking YouTube ads lately in Firefox, or sometimes the ad is blocked but you still have to wait 5 seconds. IDK if the Chrome version is different. And no, I'm not talking about "uBlock" aka the fake version.
Safari has supported FairPlay longer than Google has peddled Widevine. Google has been far from inclusive and has rejected Widevine licenses to many individuals and even those it does end up deciding to work with, such as Philips PicoPix Max, reported multiple issues waiting for Google's approval.
The reason to ditch their own rendering engine was to become compatible with more of the web and the way to achieve that is to use the engine that currently defines that compatibility, Chromium. It was the overwhelming base before and is now solidified. As a Safari user I frequently run into things that work fine in Chrome but not in Safari because almost all of the web developers work on Chrome. That means every other browser has to fall in line with Chrome's quirks which I agree is disappointing. At a former company they used to have Firefox Friday to encourage the web devs to use Firefox for a day to see how their code worked not in Chrome.
TIL that Chrome is still a thing.
But seriously, I gave up on it years ago. Also, was tired of having Google looking over my shoulder at everything I did...even with all the "privacy switches" turn on, it still phoned home. Which is fine I guess, because they provide the browser for free in exchange of it watching everything you do so it can better serve you ads...which is Google's main business. I get that. They're trying to make a buck. And yeah, the old "hey, everyone does it" doesn't fly with me. Sure, I can't turn off ALL telemetry of my browsing, but there's no need to just jump in feet first and hope for the best.
Not to mention it always killed battery life as it got more and more bloated. And as others have mentioned, we've all heard this before. Several times before. But I got off the Google/Chrome train a long time ago. I don't even use a Chromium-based browser anymore.
But seriously, I gave up on it years ago. Also, was tired of having Google looking over my shoulder at everything I did...even with all the "privacy switches" turn on, it still phoned home. Which is fine I guess, because they provide the browser for free in exchange of it watching everything you do so it can better serve you ads...which is Google's main business. I get that. They're trying to make a buck. And yeah, the old "hey, everyone does it" doesn't fly with me. Sure, I can't turn off ALL telemetry of my browsing, but there's no need to just jump in feet first and hope for the best.
Not to mention it always killed battery life as it got more and more bloated. And as others have mentioned, we've all heard this before. Several times before. But I got off the Google/Chrome train a long time ago. I don't even use a Chromium-based browser anymore.