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Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by tpush »

qz2 wrote: post #101
jkelleyrtp wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're not going to find the same AdBlockers that Chrome/FF have, but you will find AdBlockers that _work_. I agree that ads make the web unusable, but I've been content with the various blockers I've tried on Safari, and there's more every day. I use ABP, but 1Blocker and Wipr look good, and Safari's got the first 30% of privacy/adblocking taken care of with their various privacy and reader features.

1Blocker is a rip off. Wipr doesn't work properly. ABP lets a lot of ads through. There is nothing that approaches uBlock at all.

> Wipr doesn't work properly.

How does it not work properly? Been using it and am pretty satisfied so far.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by brundolf »

jedberg wrote: post #118
jkelleyrtp wrote: post #18

Just 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…

Every since the last few betas of Big Sur, I can't play Youtube videos in Safari anymore. It always gives a playback error. They all work fine if I copy the URL and load it in Chrome. Is this just me or anyone else?

I think I've had issues before where YouTube refused to play videos at all while I had my AdBlocker blocking the ads. Not sure whether it was intentional.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by haunter »

Running iOS apps on the M1 Macs feels like such a game changer. Literally too cause a lot of games have been ported to iOS and now you can easily run them on Macs that were not possible before (Final Fantasy franchise for example). People can now play PUBG (although the mobile version but still). Fortnite (which have been removed but if you have downloaded it before you can still play it). And so many other games. I think the whole thing is not just a step but a huge leap forward. I really wonder what the future holds, just looking at the performance of the M1 chips. Wishful thinking but the fact that the Switch is also on the ARM platform I hope we will see more games on Mac. This feels like the 2007 iPhone moment again.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by johnbraun »

reader_mode wrote: post #10
kxcz wrote: post #8

Any updates to the firmware or drivers for bluetooth? My 2017 Mac has had many issues with bluetooth consistency. Keep on hoping they will announce performance improvements.

I've noticed this in the last month/two - on my 2018 MBP as well - my Logitech MX keys/mouse will both randomly disconnect for 5 seconds and then pair back, this wasn't happening before.

I thought I was losing my mind - I've been experiencing the exact same thing with the MX keys/mouse over the past few months, and no amount of fiddling or reinstalling has been able to fix it. My scroll wheel regularly gets "clogged up" too, becoming unresponsive for 5-10 seconds, then dumping out all of my buffered scroll data at once in a furious explosion of scrolling. It's quite frustrating, and I've been looking forward to a fresh install of Big Sur to hopefully flush out whatever gremlins have been gunking things up.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by irrational »

cactus2093 wrote: post #98
izacus wrote: post #22

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Does it still have adblocking limitations? The same that Chrome wanted to implement?

Honestly I've been finding ad blockers much less useful over time. Seems like every page I visit these days blocks the content until I disable it, if it's not an outright paywall. I think I spend more time disabling my ad blocker temporarily than I save by not loading ads in the first place. Do others find that ad blockers actually still work well? Meanwhile, reader mode in Safari will generally hide every ad on the…

I almost exclusively see that on News websites, but I don't visit those very often, so for the most part this doesn't affect me.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by NegativeLatency »

dan1234 wrote: post #40
adrian_mrd wrote: post #14

> “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.

While the system provided apps were, you could strip one platform or the other out of apps to use less disk space

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by brundolf »

dmitryminkovsky wrote: post #65
jkelleyrtp wrote: post #18

Just 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…

Probably because they use unexposed, undocumented APIs, but non-hardware accelerated CSS animations that trigger repaints (width, top, etc) in Safari are much, much smoother than in Chrome and FF. They look almost as good as accelerated animations. Unfortunately I can't really commit to using Safari on desktop because they don't have good ad blocking extensions (please correct me if I'm wrong). Really like FF for thi…

They have AdblockPlus, which is what I use on Chrome anyway

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by qubex »

jkelleyrtp wrote: post #18

Just 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 started using the first Beta of Safari back when I was running OS X 10.2 ‘Jaguar’ and Internet Explorer was the default browser on the Mac.

Basically I’ve been using Safari (desktop and mobile) for eighteen years in a row. I usually have Chrome on my machine too, for one reason or another, but I don’t think I fire it up more than a handful of times a year.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by NegativeLatency »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #105
top_sigrid wrote: post #41

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It is already gone since Catalina. It was replaces by the Music, Podcast, TV apps. iPhone management happens in finder.

How does it work out? I have been reluctant to upgrade to even Catalina for this reason too. I still have an Ipod mini, and I'm worried it's gonna get orphaned.

It's ok, seems like the same ui view just jammed into a finder window that sometimes doesn't work right.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by lukifer »

Twice bitten, thrice shy. Every MacOS upgrade for the past 5+ years has been a bag of hurt: regressions in functionality and stability, annoying "features" like Notification Center and Catalina warning nags, various PITAs on fixing UNIX/dev toolchains, all for little to no benefit. I've stopped upgrading all my machines (other than security updates), unless forced by a mission-critical app or a new machine.
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