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 configure it 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.
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Terrific post, and right on about the security.
I don't have any resource issues on Chrome on my Mini (I7/32GB), I currently have 7 (named) windows with ~60 tabs or so open across them (tabs are also pinned/grouped as needed), several extensions, etc. I'm also running in MacOS: VSCode, ST2, Sketch, Soulver, Safari (yes, two browsers
Can't hear any fans, certainly not spun up, I do run mine on a nice big, ultra BB fan with the bottom plate removed, so YMMV