I've just disabled chromes flash. I don't see why everyone wants me to switch from Chrome to Safari. Firefox runs like crap for me, it used to be my main browser until I found that Chrome ran better. Opera is, well Opera. I just don't like Safari. I've given it plenty time in the past and I just straight up highly dislike it.
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I've just disabled chromes flash. I don't see why everyone wants me to switch from Chrome to Safari. Firefox runs like crap for me, it used to be my main browser until I found that Chrome ran better. Opera is, well Opera. I just don't like Safari. I've given it plenty time in the past and I just straight up highly dislike it.
Simply put in a sentence - in my opinion Chrome is a menace.
Unless you are wedded to the extensions, I'd suggest Safari. The performance is better, battery life is better and it doesn't ignore many of the carefully implemented OS design decisions because they are inconvenient.
I'd be a rich man if I had a quid for everytime someone posted on a forum asking "my new Mac only gets 4 hours of battery life when surfing the web - is it faulty" or "my new Mac gets really hot and the fans are blaring when I'm browsing the web" ... then to find out they're using Chrome and never even tried Safari.
The Windows version is even worse. Until recently it changed the default Windows timer settings to improve the performance at the cost of power consumption on portables. There's a lovely article on it at arstechnica. It's other lovely trick is installing itself into the user profile even if the user doesn't have admin rights. We don't want it installed on the machines at work, therefore we've actively barred chrome using Group Policy, and have to regularly maintain the rule as they release new versions. There's no other browser or commercial software I know of that pulls these sort of tricks.
Unless you are wedded to the extensions, I'd suggest Safari. The performance is better, battery life is better and it doesn't ignore many of the carefully implemented OS design decisions because they are inconvenient.
I'd be a rich man if I had a quid for everytime someone posted on a forum asking "my new Mac only gets 4 hours of battery life when surfing the web - is it faulty" or "my new Mac gets really hot and the fans are blaring when I'm browsing the web" ... then to find out they're using Chrome and never even tried Safari.
The Windows version is even worse. Until recently it changed the default Windows timer settings to improve the performance at the cost of power consumption on portables. There's a lovely article on it at arstechnica. It's other lovely trick is installing itself into the user profile even if the user doesn't have admin rights. We don't want it installed on the machines at work, therefore we've actively barred chrome using Group Policy, and have to regularly maintain the rule as they release new versions. There's no other browser or commercial software I know of that pulls these sort of tricks.
People are just offering advice, and from their experience Flash can result in higher than expected CPU usage on OS X, I don't think they have a downer on Chrome. Safari being native to OS X doesn't have any Flash component, think like this try heavy flash site with Chrome (Flash enabled) and then Safari and see what happens, process of elimination and all that...
As for browsing it`s like all a personal choice. I use Safari & Aviator and block Ad`s with a plugin.
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