The best thing about this is being able to run natively iOS apps (with new chips). I'll probably never open another Electron app on desktop again. Wonder how the file management works.
This is only true for Apple Silicon Arm macs though.
macOS Big Sur
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#32Just want to put here that if you're using a Mac and haven't tried Safari recently, you're missing out. A few things: - Battery life is fantastic compared to Chrome/FF - Privacy seems to be top-notch - The tab ordering situation is now chrome-like (my biggest gripe in older versions of safari) - Experimental features are 1 click away, easily enable/disable WebGL2 - Support for the WebExtensions standard means addons…
I haven't upgraded from Mojave but I've also been daily driving Safari for the last few years. I gotta admit that in the butt dyno department everything feels significantly faster than any other browser. I made the switch when I realized how much more power efficient it is and haven't looked back.
I only use FFX and Chrome for testing, although I tend to use FFX a lot for the developer tools and Vue integration. That being said, Safari has extremely polished dev tools that are highly capable.
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#33Please tell me it is more stable than Catalina. I have to reboot my machine every day or two just to keep it going.
10.15.7 has been very stable for me, on my work laptop I reboot maybe once a week or so and a lot of the weird thunderbolt issues have been resolved (I think 10.15.5 or 10.15.6 IIRC).
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#34Is Universal Clipboard not working for others on the latest version of iOS (stable) and Big Sur or just me?
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#35Just want to put here that if you're using a Mac and haven't tried Safari recently, you're missing out. A few things: - Battery life is fantastic compared to Chrome/FF - Privacy seems to be top-notch - The tab ordering situation is now chrome-like (my biggest gripe in older versions of safari) - Experimental features are 1 click away, easily enable/disable WebGL2 - Support for the WebExtensions standard means addons…
lack of ublock (or any other real adblocker) makes safari a non-starter for me.
I've been using Safari from 2008 on up until they decided to kill addons. Then I moved to Firefox.
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#36Just want to put here that if you're using a Mac and haven't tried Safari recently, you're missing out. A few things: - Battery life is fantastic compared to Chrome/FF - Privacy seems to be top-notch - The tab ordering situation is now chrome-like (my biggest gripe in older versions of safari) - Experimental features are 1 click away, easily enable/disable WebGL2 - Support for the WebExtensions standard means addons…
Ehm, push notifications?
Desktop Safari has had push notifications since like… 10.9 Mavericks. Only mobile Safari doesn't support them.
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#37I'll be curious to know if virtualizing Windows on an M1 will be faster than running native on my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) in Big Sur.
If so, I guess I'll only be missing eGPU capabilities.
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#38Just want to put here that if you're using a Mac and haven't tried Safari recently, you're missing out. A few things: - Battery life is fantastic compared to Chrome/FF - Privacy seems to be top-notch - The tab ordering situation is now chrome-like (my biggest gripe in older versions of safari) - Experimental features are 1 click away, easily enable/disable WebGL2 - Support for the WebExtensions standard means addons…
I really need Firefox's container models. The battery life for Firefox is awful, but everything else seems great.
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#39Will iTunes disappear in Big Sur - is the alternative equally good? I originally put off installing Catalina because I didn't want to lose iTunes.
Which part of iTunes are you talking about? The device management is now in Finder, music is now in Music, etc.
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#40> “Big Sur has been engineered, down to its core, to take full advantage of all the power of the M1 chip” Does that mean that all of the OS code has been recompiled for Apple Silicon / ARM? And if so, does that mean Big Sur has two binaries: 1 for ARM (new M1 Macs) and 1 for Intel (existing supported Mac devices) and there is a flag at boot-time to determine which mode it runs in?
In the PPC - x86 transition the binaries were all ‘universal’, with code for both platforms.