I tested Chrome, Brave, Firefox, Edge and Safari in the last year and ended up choosing Chrome again.
In benchmarks Safari is faster than Chrome, but it's not actually the truth if you use an adblocker.
I tried Safari with Adguard/Wipr and it is slower in the loading, especially in the scrolling while media and pictures are shown. On the other hand, without extensions, it is fast as much as benchmarks claim.
Chrome with ublock origin maintains its speed. Ublock is the best adblocker that deletes every single ads on the web without affecting resources, it is open source, community open. You can't go back
With Safari, whatever adblock I tried, I still have click-ads in new tabs, and a slower experience.
Safari APIs are the ones to blame here, they just don't have the same power of the other engines.
For this reason Safari is out of the games for me.
In addition, Safari in the two fingers swipe to go back is slow and glitchy, it reloads always the page, it gets stuck on a white page, or the animation works but it returns back on the page you were already watching.
Try to swipe back in any other browser and see how fast it is. It doesn't lose the previous page in the cache.
Try also to pinch in-out to zoom on some websites. Safari is just glitchy, the website will react strange. On Chrome the pinching is always better.
Safari is also less reliable than Chrome. In Chrome tabs remain there for hours, no crash, no reload, no freezes, the browser updates on the next restart seamlessly to have the latest security update. It gives the feeling of a very stable and tested software. Safari is no longer like this, from a long time.
With Chrome if I have a website that I want separated from browser I'll just install the WPA, nowadays apps are WPAs themselves. For example Outlook adds an icon in the Apps/Dock with its own window, without the heavy desktop app which I may not need.
Battery on Chrome lasts little bit less because it gives better and more functions. Not as much as people on the web claim, Chrome improved a lot. Probably only a 20% of difference.
Chrome uses also less ram and cpu than brave, edge and firefox. Try with the activity monitor.
-Firefox with ublock works really well, but the engine is slower and consumes more resources. Battery seems to be worse and temperatures as well.
-Brave is probably the best after chrome. Their adblocker is good, like 97/100 compared to ublock, but still ublock has better advanced functionality and is a little bit faster in loading.
If you want to use brave I would just turn off their shields and install ublock. But at this point, just use chrome which has better benchmarks and doesn't have crypto advertisement.
-Edge is a very good browser, too bloated. All those menus of things make it look heavy.
Slower than Chrome in benchmarks but acceptable if you want its bloat, or you just don't want to use google.
