Honnest question for Safari users: why Safari? I don't really know Safari. I used Chrome on Windows and iOS, and when I moved to OSX I naturally continued with Chrome. And the dev tools are really great.
battery life/CPU usage.
Safari Technology Preview supports 100% of the ES2015/16/17 features
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#12Honnest question for Safari users: why Safari? I don't really know Safari. I used Chrome on Windows and iOS, and when I moved to OSX I naturally continued with Chrome. And the dev tools are really great.
Battery life. Chrome absolutely obliterates my MBP's battery. edit: this is the same reason I have for hating Electron apps so much.
One of my friend who is travelling moved from Chrome to Opera (!) for the battery life reason.
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#13Honnest question for Safari users: why Safari? I don't really know Safari. I used Chrome on Windows and iOS, and when I moved to OSX I naturally continued with Chrome. And the dev tools are really great.
Safari on macOS is the only browser on this planet that implements color management correctly.
Safari gives me at least three hours of autonomy on my laptop. Chrome burns CPU like crazy. Not to mention that on Youtube (a Google site) 1080p video uses 1% CPU in Safari while 720p video in Chrome (a Google browser) manages to use 80% CPU.
Safari is the only browser that can do ad blocking without javascript extensions.
Why not Safari?
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#14Honnest question for Safari users: why Safari? I don't really know Safari. I used Chrome on Windows and iOS, and when I moved to OSX I naturally continued with Chrome. And the dev tools are really great.
(Not sure how to format this)
- Battery life
- Bookmark syncing and continuity (opening tabs from any of your other devices)
- Content blocker API (so that ad blocker extension doesn't see all of the content)
- Not having browsing history sent to Google
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#15Honnest question for Safari users: why Safari? I don't really know Safari. I used Chrome on Windows and iOS, and when I moved to OSX I naturally continued with Chrome. And the dev tools are really great.
Hot keys for Bookmarks in Favorites Bars (Command+Option+N).
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#16Honnest question for Safari users: why Safari? I don't really know Safari. I used Chrome on Windows and iOS, and when I moved to OSX I naturally continued with Chrome. And the dev tools are really great.
Many reasons. Among those I care about:
* It's a lot more power-efficient than any other browser.
* In my experience, it's often faster than Chrome.
* It follows platform conventions. I still get weirded out by Chrome cramming everything into that ⋮ button.
* It syncs history, favorites, and open tabs over iCloud to Safari on my phone. It also supports Handoff.
* It's not made by Google, a company that I prefer to give as little personal information as possible to.
And more generally, it's just more enjoyable to use.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Battery life. Chrome absolutely obliterates my MBP's battery. edit: this is the same reason I have for hating Electron apps so much.
One of my friend who is travelling moved from Chrome to Opera (!) for the battery life reason.
Opera uses Blink now, so I wouldn't expect it to be much better than Chrome.
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#18Honnest question for Safari users: why Safari? I don't really know Safari. I used Chrome on Windows and iOS, and when I moved to OSX I naturally continued with Chrome. And the dev tools are really great.
I tend to try and use Safari when I'm at home just surfing the web or checking email because of battery life. If I'm not plugged in I will use Safari over Chrome. When I'm actually working I tend to use Chrome just because I enjoy the experience and have all the plugins I enjoy using there. Generally I am also plugged into a wall outlet when actively working in a browser (I'm primarily a frontend developer).
I just got the new tMBP 13" and have been making it a habit to use Safari over Chrome on it. It's a pretty noticeable different so far. I'm going to try and record some usage information over the next few weeks and see how much of a difference it really makes. In general though it appears that with Safari and general browsing I can get the advertised 10 hours or so. If I start using chrome (even just browsing) it turns to 7 or so hours.
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#19Honnest question for Safari users: why Safari? I don't really know Safari. I used Chrome on Windows and iOS, and when I moved to OSX I naturally continued with Chrome. And the dev tools are really great.
I tend to try and use Safari when I'm at home just surfing the web or checking email because of battery life. If I'm not plugged in I will use Safari over Chrome. When I'm actually working I tend to use Chrome just because I enjoy the experience and have all the plugins I enjoy using there. Generally I am also plugged into a wall outlet when actively working in a browser (I'm primarily a frontend developer). I just g…
> If I start using chrome (even just browsing) it turns to 7 or so hours.
And if you start youtube (even 480p), it drops to 3 hours with Chrome, while still getting the 10 hours with Safari.
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#20Honnest question for Safari users: why Safari? I don't really know Safari. I used Chrome on Windows and iOS, and when I moved to OSX I naturally continued with Chrome. And the dev tools are really great.
Many reasons. Among those I care about: * It's a lot more power-efficient than any other browser. * In my experience, it's often faster than Chrome. * It follows platform conventions. I still get weirded out by Chrome cramming everything into that ⋮ button. * It syncs history, favorites, and open tabs over iCloud to Safari on my phone. It also supports Handoff. * It's not made by Google, a company that I prefer to gi…
FYI chrome on macOS supports handoff too