Google Touts Chrome 89 Memory Savings That 'Keep Your Mac Cooler' While Browsing

[collin_]

I really can´t understand why a mac user install this piece of ****.

It has some settings and extensions that are highly useful to me and not available on Safari. I'm thinking about moving to Safari with its big improvements lately, though.

Something that should be noted is that, although Chrome is a privacy nightmare with default settings, it can be heavily configured to be way more private -- potentially even more private than default Safari. Google is banking on people not disabling features such as these, and probably 99% of users don't.

 

[zenotds]

Just spent half the morning fixing a website because Chrome 89 introduced a render bug with floated elements...

I've been saying it for years... Chrome is the new Internet Explorer. Stay away from this piece of ****

I use Firefox Dev Edition for work (best dev tools out there) and Safari for casual/personal browsing.

 

[Doomtomb]

Chrome is flawed. Learn to love Safari

 

[Sasparilla]

Nice to see - there are folks that need it for things or just want to use it - so for those folks this is good news.

Firefox and Safari are my daily drivers, but I do use Chrome as my trashcan browser (Facebook, Youtube where I want to be signed in, gmail) as I assume those folks will plant who knows what to get around my uBlock Origin plugin and cookie restrictions - so they can just stay in a nice pool by themselves, tracking almost nothing, where its only used when needed (rarely).

 

[telo123]

Chrome is flawed. Learn to love Safari

Until Safari starts caching less aggressively, no. It’s so aggressive in that now that even just Safari alone uses up 2-3 GB of SWAP when there is still 2 GB of free RAM. Yikes. That’s worse than Chrome.

 

[neliason]

Because the web inspector saves an insane amount of time when you're a software engineer. And for my use, it's easier and quicker to use than the ones in FF and safari. safari's used to be good until apple tried to turn it into xcode-lite

I dislike Google and Chrome so much that I use Opera for that.

To head off any question, yes, I know Opera, sadly, is a Chromium browser. Long live Presto!

 

[Wokis]

Cool. Mom's using Chrome (it "works better" on the websites she visits apparently) and the battery life on that MBA is abysmal despite a recent battery change.

 

[wanha]

Sorry, Google, but too little too late. I've already deleted Chrome from my devices and moved onto other browsers to complement Safari.

That, and the fact that I don't trust you AT ALL when it comes to handling my data and respecting my privacy.

 

[Corsig]

Except it’s still Google so no

 

[derekamoss]

Microsoft says... "Your Welcome!"

 

[wanha]

Problem with safari you can’t do everything chrome can, why safari can’t live stream or do video calling is beyond me so we have to have chrome, also safari keeps killing Disney plus website

Lots of good alternatives out there, like Brave (which is based on the Chrome engine), Edge, and Firefox. All of those are way more privacy focused than Chrome and at least *seem* lighter.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

So basically they just copied the work Microsoft put into Edge?

 

[harriska2]

Safari on Mojave doesn’t work on several websites including FB and .gov ones. I also use opera, FF, and Chrome. Same with iOS 14 devices. Facebook doesn’t work at all on my ipad running iOS 14. I don’t use the app. Chrome works well. My daily driver is safari

 

[tmpkn]

I really can´t understand why a mac user install this piece of ****.

uBlock Origin

Since Apple decided to kill addon support in Safari, it became an equivalent of IE - merely a tool to download FF/Chrome and then get out of the way.

 

[BornAgainMac]

Cross compatibility for when you have to use Windows.

Microsoft Edge / Firefox

 

[derekamoss]

Everyone really should just Microsoft Edge and give it a chance. You will be surprised.

 

[bchery21]

The sole reason why I have Chrome is so I can use YouTube TV. If this is no longer a requirement please let me know!

 

[JuBe]

Chrome is great for reading my Gmail account and for searching Google when Duck-duck go is not so productive in Safari. I also use it to load some sites that don't load as they should in Safari. My Google profile is very boring 🙂

Quick tip: If you have Duck-duck-go as your default search engine, simply adding g! to the end of your query will route the search through Duck-duck-go (I think) to Google (I know), maintaining some of the privacy features of using Duck-duck-go (I think). And if you add w! to the end of your search, it will try to take you to the Wikipedia page for the search you just entered.

 

[jmgregory1]

It's kind of funny how Chrome and it's battery burning ram inefficiency has the same kind of support that PC laptops do, where they're effectively forced to be plugged in all the time because they are so inefficient.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

I would rather install Edge. I don’t want Chrome even if it uses 0% resources, if it’s going to spy on me.

Chrome is great for reading my Gmail account and for searching Google when Duck-duck go is not so productive in Safari. I also use it to load some sites that don't load as they should in Safari. My Google profile is very boring 🙂

try Edge, and Apple Mail. I have 4 Gmail accounts working perfectly with Apple Mail.

 

[jonobin]

If you don't like chrome try other chromium-based browsers like Edge or Brave.

 

[dannys1]

Problem with safari you can’t do everything chrome can, why safari can’t live stream or do video calling is beyond me so we have to have chrome, also safari keeps killing Disney plus website

Use Firefox as the backup browser then. I've never ever needed to use a Chromium browser.

 

[no_idea]

I really can´t understand why a mac user install this piece of ****.

I really can’t understand why ppl think macs are just for the casual user

 

[luvbug]

Google Chrome, and the open source Chromium project, are not the same. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. There are some very good browsers built on top of Chromium, e.g. Brave. Edge started with the Chromium code base, too. Just sayin'.

 

[WestonHarvey1]

I really can´t understand why a mac user install this piece of ****.

It's the canonical browser for web app compatibility. Many developers do all their work for it and give other browsers a cursory test if they test it at all. Safari just can't handle 100% of the code out there.