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Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

thiht wrote: post #166
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…

> - Actually decent dev tools (used to be terrible) As a daily user of Safari, I can't let you say that. The devtools suck. The network tools suck (why is it so hard to find the request payload??), the elements tools suck, there are basically no extensions (React, Redux, etc.). They are just horrible. As much as I try to use only Safari, I still fallback on Firefox Dev when I need some real devtools. I use it for the…

The network tools drive me insane. It's a major part of why I can't use the dev tools routinely.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by sixstringtheory »

AngeloAnolin wrote: post #150

I hope they provided with this update a way to examine the Others category that usually takes up so much space in our Mac devices. I've emptied my documents, removed as much possible clutter I can see and still, that Others space is taking 60% of my storage.

I’m a longtime and happy user of DaisyDisk for investigating this kind of thing.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by enriquto »

ksec wrote: post #159
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…

It is great, but: 1. Just lost a few hundred Tabs from last session. Not the first time this has happened to me on Safari. ( Firefox used to have this problem as well, they implemented multiple LastSession.json to combat the problem and it is basically a thing of the past. ) 2. Fav Icons meant they are no longer showing the Tab Description once you have a dozen tabs as they will shrink to Icons Size. So you either ha…

> Just lost a few hundred Tabs from last session

This is horrifying! How do you get to have one hundred tabs, or worse, a few hundred?

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by coddle-hark »

anupamchugh wrote: post #26
gazelleeatslion wrote: post #9

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.

Does that mean we can run Slack iOS app on Mac Silicon? That'll be great, if its possible. Slack Electron mac app consumed too much battery.

Isn’t Slack on iOS just a webview?

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by saagarjha »

adrian_mrd wrote: post #102
wodenokoto wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would there be a runtime flag and not just the appropriate binary installed?

I was thinking of the case where only some of the core companion OS apps (Preview, TextEdit, Messages, etc) had been updated to ARM, so the OS would need to check if they are to be run as native (ARM) or Universal (Intel). But assumably Apple has updated all of these apps to be ARM native on ARM OS binary installs? update: clarified sentence

Almost all the code in the OS is built as Universal. There are a few exceptions, but most of those are to load Intel plugins and such.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by ultrarunner »

thiht wrote: post #166
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…

> - Actually decent dev tools (used to be terrible) As a daily user of Safari, I can't let you say that. The devtools suck. The network tools suck (why is it so hard to find the request payload??), the elements tools suck, there are basically no extensions (React, Redux, etc.). They are just horrible. As much as I try to use only Safari, I still fallback on Firefox Dev when I need some real devtools. I use it for the…

Yeah, the devtools have come a long way but there's still some friction there. At this point it might just be because I'm used to Chrome's and I just need a little exercise in mental plasticity. However, eventually I'd like to take a look at porting Vue devtools to Safari, if only for iOS.

Maybe I'm just old enough to remember the bad old days, but browser bugs seem very few and far between. One I've found is Chrome's implementation of backdrop-filter is extremely buggy, while Safari works 100% of the time. Specifically it seems that two sibling elements cannot both specify a backdrop-filter in Chrome. I work on a rather large SPA and it has only one browser hack: a dummy div that works around Chrome (and thus Edge's) implementation.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by ngrilly »

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 work and live in Sweden since one year, but I don't speak Swedish. For that reason, the one thing I miss in Safari and Firefox is the Google Translate integration in Chrome, on macOS and iOS. A life saver, honestly.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by saagarjha »

wiremine wrote: post #23
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?

Not sure about the OS, but they introduced Universal 2 at WWDC 2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_binary#Universal_2

The OS is compiled as Universal 2.
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