Microsoft Edge Looks Set to Overtake Safari as World's Second Most Popular Desktop Browser

[InuNacho]

Is Firefox more stable than chrome? I feel like chrome really has a tough time when RAM usage exceeds 4 GB.

Chrome is a mystery to me as to why it gobbles resources and messes up something simple like eBay.
I work in eCommerce and when I take work home with me, have to use different browsers for the different online stores I work with. I occasionally use Chrome on Mac and it screws with the backend eBay listing feature hard. Pictures are uploaded randomly, it just hangs at times, and eats resources like crazy.
Granted alot of this is eBay's fault for having their website backend work and look like it did in the early 2000s but still, Chrome doesn't play nice with it.

 

[chucker23n1]

Sacrilegious thought? Maybe Apple should use Chromium instead of WebKit. I bet Apple would sure as hell optimize Chromium better than Google has, that's for sure.

All major browsers using Chromium as their basis (Firefox is no longer a major browser) would be awful for the web. Monoculture is bad.

 

[coolfactor]

Sacrilegious thought? Maybe Apple should use Chromium instead of WebKit. I bet Apple would sure as hell optimize Chromium better than Google has, that's for sure.

Why? It's not about who holds the most users. It's about who offers the best experience. If a particular browser happens to get more users as a result of offering a better experience, then that's just a bonus.

Regarding optimization... keep in mind that there's two parts to every browser... the rendering engine and the wrapping browser that implements that engine, adding all kinds of browser-specific features on top. Quite often the bloat is in the wrapping browser.

 

[coolfactor]

All major browsers using Chromium as their basis (Firefox is no longer a major browser) would be awful for the web. Monoculture is bad.

Agreed, however... Firefox is still a major browser.

 

[Realityck]

Agreed, however... Firefox is still a major browser.

Also focused on security if you been following their version history.

 

[Maximara]

Sacrilegious thought? Maybe Apple should use Chromium instead of WebKit. I bet Apple would sure as hell optimize Chromium better than Google has, that's for sure.

I doubt it as everybody seems to have problems with Chromium writing to SSDs like a drunken sailor:

 

[Pecka]

I gave up on Safari for Firefox a month ago.

 

[Maximara]

5. 95% of people who own a Mac they use google chrome lol

Then 95% of people who own a Mac are killing their SSDs as it is the worst browser you can use:

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Today Safari failed again loading a page. All other browsers succeeded. So is Safari on its way to teplace IE6 ans is Monterey the next Vista?

Which page?

 

[SactoGuy18]

Chromium is the new IE with its monumental share. For good or ill it has created its own variants of interpretation of html just like IE did. Eventually it'll either be the norm that everyone uses in one form or another or something else will disrupt the market and steal away shares. Then we'll be left with a decade of even more incompatibility as legacy things will only work on one and new things work on both until it's unprofitable.

While I kind of agree, the fact that Brave, Edge since January 2020 and Opera uses the Chromium base tells me Chromium has become the de facto standard for web layout engines.

 

[Maximara]

Chrome also has memory issues. It’s my go to on desktop and it crashes. Not as often as others, but it still has memory issues.

Chrome has had memory issues for so long it has become a meme. My personal favorite (only here those are SSD "chips":

 

[SactoGuy18]

Chrome is a mystery to me as to why it gobbles resources and messes up something simple like eBay.
I work in eCommerce and when I take work home with me, have to use different browsers for the different online stores I work with. I occasionally use Chrome on Mac and it screws with the backend eBay listing feature hard. Pictures are uploaded randomly, it just hangs at times, and eats resources like crazy.
Granted alot of this is eBay's fault for having their website backend work and look like it did in the early 2000s but still, Chrome doesn't play nice with it.

I've had issues with YouTube causing a whole browser lockup under Google Chrome. Interestingly, I've never seen it with the Microsoft Edge 97.x versions and the current Firefox 97.x verseions.

 

[GermanSuplex]

Not sure I've paid much attention to browser wars recently, but I didn't realize Chrome had such a massive share on desktops. Though its not surprising, with many companies using G-Suite. Just hadn't paid much attention and to see it at roughly 2/3 usage... wow.

 

[AF_APPLETALK]

The Safari and iCloud + VPN integration has re-invigorated my interest in Safari. Especially when out and about using public networks.

 

[kyjaotkb]

On my pre-2011 Macs I use ArcticFox or Firefox. But Edge is my favourite browser on my current M1 Pro MBP. I can use all corporate web tools I need to use and it provides a nice PWA for Teams, making Teams essentially Apple Silicon native. I know Teams is a horror but I have no choice...
Edge also syncs up with my PCs and mobile nicely.
It doesn't throw random bugs at me like Safari (e.g not being able to attach files to an email in Gmail).
In real life use, it's as fast as Safari.
On a Macbook Air 2011 running High Sierra, Safari or Chrome are unusable and Edge is perfectly usable tu surf 2022's internet.
It uses way less memory and starts faster than Chrome.
Its tabs system looks great.
Lots of reasons to like Edge!

I am also enjoying the "new" Outlook for Mac a lot and Office in general, which have almost 100% feature parity with the PC version and run super fast. Now if Microsoft could do something about the resource hog that is OneDrive...

 

[randyhudson]

Edge has come a long way. On the iPhone I prefer safari (but use edge also) , on windows edge.

You're comparing Edge on the iPhone to Edge on Windows?

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

"You're comparing Edge on the iPhone to Edge on Windows?"

I was trying to, but stopped. It's not the same? Edge on Windows was nearly useless. It's Microsoft's fault for sharing the name if it turns out to be usable on a mac.

 

[dannys1]

One of the great mysteries in life is why Firefox isn’t more popular.

Yep - my second browser to Safari and always open as I use some of its "Firefox only" features like keeping Facebook in it's own container.

 

[rcread]

I feel stupid. I've never even heard of Microsoft Edge.

 

[4jasontv]

Chrome is a mystery to me as to why it gobbles resources and messes up something simple like eBay.
I work in eCommerce and when I take work home with me, have to use different browsers for the different online stores I work with. I occasionally use Chrome on Mac and it screws with the backend eBay listing feature hard. Pictures are uploaded randomly, it just hangs at times, and eats resources like crazy.
Granted alot of this is eBay's fault for having their website backend work and look like it did in the early 2000s but still, Chrome doesn't play nice with it.

Yes

Chrome has had memory issues for so long it has become a meme. My personal favorite:

But I am supposed to use web apps because my bills sponsor asks me to use them. Look at this. This is just today...

 

[javisan]

I love Edge in Mac OS. At this point there is nothing Apple can do with Safari that will make me want to use it ever again.

 

[Stunning_Sense4712]

You need Edge to download Chrome after all.

Microsoft Edge run better on Windows compared to Chrome.

 

[steve333]

I tried Edge and didn't like it too much.
I prefer the design of Safari and how it stays out of the way user wise, but it still doesn't work well with some websites and needs to work better. It's a mystery why Apple can't get this right.

 

[Stunning_Sense4712]

I would switch to Edge on my Apple devices if it was not for Apple‘s software roadblocks like blocking full screen on third party browsers to force all their users onto Safari.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

I would switch to Edge on my Apple devices if it was not for Apple‘s software roadblocks like blocking full screen on third party browsers to force all their users onto Safari.

Blocking full screen? So when a user clicks the green button, the browser doesn’t fill the screen?