Why is Safari so much slower than Chrome?

[Sakurambo-kun]

Is there any hope for Safari ever improving? I try to use it, daily even, but time after time when I run into yet another YouTube stutter or appalling Google Maps frame rate I go back to Chrome. It's a sorry state of affairs that Google are writing better OS X apps than Apple.

 

[campyguy]

I can't answer "why". I can offer that I have zero issues with Safari and Chrome. Regarding YouTube and GMaps I believe that Google is blocking services to Safari - using those two sites in Safari work so much better when I change Safari's User Agent to Chrome, such as "Satellite" in Safari changing to "Earth" when the User Agent is changed to Chrome, just like it shows up in Chrome. I watched several HD videos in Safari just last night in a Guest User Profile with the User Agent changed and they looked fantastic on my BenQ 4k display...

 

[komatsu]

About time somebody brought this issue up.

I work with different Safari users everyday. The use it because "it came with the system" but they
find it quite slow. Then you install Chrome and see their faces delight in the speed difference.

I cannot understand the reason either why Apple got an intrinsic part of the computing experience so wrong.

 

[maxsix]

Chrome has been my browser of choice for a long time. It's a far better browser than Safari.

Google employs a large number of highly skilled engineers that specifically design Google products for OS X and iOS. They've done a wonderful job. Thanks to them my Mac and iPhone experience has been terrific.

I use the full set of Google Apps on both my iPhone and Nexus 6P, it's the best of both worlds.