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MacBook Newbie Question: Safari or Chrome?

Firefox here as well.

Anyone who hasn't tried Firefox in a while, I would say give it a go. I said screw it to Safari after dealing with its horrible tab behaviors and used Firefox Nightly yesterday in school and I was surprised to see it lasted a whole 8 hours, only one hour less than Safari. And this is with a LOT of apps running, including an IDE, I just turned down the brightness down to four notches.

If you don't like the release version, download the Nightly version and try that. Yes, yes, I know it's supposed to be unstable, but in Mozilla's world, highly unstable means it crashes once a year or something, I have been using Nightly for a while now and haven't had it crash or freeze up or anything like that.

Plus, it's got a new user interface (that takes some cues from Chrome's GUI).


I relegate Chrome to flash videos. I don't install Flash on my system. Consequently, Firefox/Safari run much better. Chrome already has flash bundled in, so you could watch all your por--er--youtube videos whenever you want.
 
Mirascael said:
No love for Firefox?

Does that mean there are adblock-addons for Chrome, Safari, Opera and IE that I am unaware of?
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KUguardgrl13 said:
Of course there's Adblock! I wouldn't have left Firefox without it, especially for Chrome! As far as I'm aware, it's on Chrome and Safari, but I don't know about IE. Adblock and IT dept rules were the major reasons I used Firefox over Safari in 2009, but those aren't a factor anymore. Adblock has saved me from the more recent frustrations with Facebook ;). Now if only it were available for mobile...
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i use Adblock Plus... yes they are two different things (Plus is the open source one). Plus also adds privacy protection (disable tracking, disable malware, disable social media like buttons tracking). Plus is currently not available for Safari, but it's on its way.. currently on beta. have had it for Chrome for a while now though, and it is a must have.
 
radiohead14 said:
i use Adblock Plus... yes they are two different things (Plus is the open source one). Plus also adds privacy protection (disable tracking, disable malware, disable social media like buttons tracking). Plus is currently not available for Safari, but it's on its way.. currently on beta. have had it for Chrome for a while now though, and it is a must have.
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Thanks guys. That turned me into a Chrome-User as well (at least on my Windows-machines at home and at work).
 
Firefox.

I would like to use Safari, but not a great fan of the interface. I don't customise much, but just use the adblock, noscript, and gif-animation block.

I also don't want to go to Chrome. I have an Android phone and I'm tired of the mediocre sprawl that Google has become. They don't need another user feeding their inefficient money-grabbing empire.
 
Both are just chocolate and vanilla portals to the NSA server farm in Utah, pick your poison.

For extremely minor improvements in your ability to protect your privacy, Firefox is best, but only marginally so.

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Chrome, even though it doesn't get as-good battery life as Safari.

The extensions, syncing, looks, and navigation, are better then any other browser.

I really wish they'd fix the battery life issue.
 
Safari because iCloud tabs are great. I know chrome has a similar feature but I don't use mobile chrome.

NocturnalJazz said:
Internet explorer or Netscape navigator when i have to.
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+1

Teach me how to download IE. I can't seem to find it on microsoft's website?
 
Beezy253 said:
The only time I use Chrome is to print off my USPS shipping labels, or if I can't get something to load in Safari.
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Scott7975 said:
There are still a couple websites that I need for college that aren't supported for Safari.
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PhilPilsner said:
It could be some website not loading correctly or some terrible lagging when it comes to loading webpages (especially the homepage) and moving back and forth between web pages.
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I truly don't understand this. I love Safari, but websites for school and what not simply won't run in Safari and work flawlessly in Chrome. I know Chrome is now on the Blink engine, but even before that, when Safari and Chrome shared the same rendering foundation, Chrome worked where Safari failed. Why is that?

I know that since Safari's usage is far less statistically that many developers don't make it a priority, but why is the only browser that won't work?
 
I use Firefox.

Chrome is a resource hog and well, since it's Google, everything that you do on Chrome will be seen by the NSA.

Safari is great, but somehow isn't really good on HTML5 pages.

Firefox may not be the best, but it's the best balance.

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NewishMacGuy said:
Both are just chocolate and vanilla portals to the NSA server farm in Utah, pick your poison.

For extremely minor improvements in your ability to protect your privacy, Firefox is best, but only marginally so.

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Might as well as use Tor.
 
I use Chrome on Windows PCs, but I too find Safari much smoother on Macs, and so that's my go-to browser. Like everyone has said, at the end of the day it comes down to personal preference.
 
I use Firefox on OS X and Windows. I might try Safari again once the full-fledged Adblock Plus plugin goes live, but in the long run I don't envision switching.

I like Chrome, but one thing that bugs the bejebus out of me is the arrow overlay that shows up when I do a two-finger swipe to go back a page. I've never been able to figure out how to disable it.
 
Firefox, definitely. Not sure why there's talk of it being "dead", especially since it's been retina-ized and everything. Much better privacy and security settings--especially with the right add-ons--and better/more customizeable adblocking. It has its problems, but data collection from Apple or Google isn't one of them.
 
megatronbomb said:
I want to use Safari, but stick with Chrome until Safari allows favicons on the bookmark bar.
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Have you tried Glims? Puts some nice additional features into Safari - favicons on tabs is one of them which is both an ergonomic as well as aesthetic improvement as it makes tab identification much quicker/easier.
 
simonsi said:
Have you tried Glims? Puts some nice additional features into Safari - favicons on tabs is one of them which is both an ergonomic as well as aesthetic improvement as it makes tab identification much quicker/easier.
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I haven't. Thanks for sharing that!

I might be mistaken, but I don't think this is quite what I was hoping for in terms of favicons on the bookmark bar across the top and not just the tabs.
 
I prefer Safari, it syncs with my iPhone so I can pick up what I was doing on the Mac. Same with bookmarks and passwords. Chrome and Firefox are much slower on a Mac than Safari, you get better battery life, smoothness, and feature with Safari on a Mac. I have been a Mac user for 3 - 4 Years
 
megatronbomb said:
I haven't. Thanks for sharing that!

I might be mistaken, but I don't think this is quite what I was hoping for in terms of favicons on the bookmark bar across the top and not just the tabs.
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No it isn't but its better than native Safari. Some other cool bookmark-handling features too.
 
I used chrome for a while and it was a battery hog. Switched to safari. Haven't really noticed a difference in usability. It does the job for me.
 
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