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I love how Safari fills in OTP codes from SMS messages automatically. I know you’re not supposed to use them but so many services still do.
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As the author of the linked article, there's over 250,000 users of our Safari-exclusive ad blocker[1] with few complaints. It is able to block all ads, trackers and annoyances that users encounter. Including all YouTube ads. Don't disagree that there are some limitations with more contemporary ad blocking approaches but they do the job for most users needs. These approaches will likely continue to evolve and include…
nice self-promotion. But anyways, what's the story on Safari's support for manifest v2 going forward?
Mozilla maintains a list of which keys are compatible across which browsers as well [2]
[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/saf...
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
I don't really know about all the details of those metrics but I know one thing: Safari is smooth. Actually it was just perfect in the previous years too for me anyway. It just works and works super-efficient. That's why I use it. The only reason I have Chrome installed is to test my websites with Chrome and use MetaMask. TBH I never understood why people use Chrome on a Mac unless there is a specific extension or si…
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nice self-promotion. But anyways, what's the story on Safari's support for manifest v2 going forward?
Safari 15.4 and later supports manifest versions 2 and 3. [1] Mozilla maintains a list of which keys are compatible across which browsers as well [2] [1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/saf... [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
Derided by whom? From an end user point of view, Safari is the best browser, hands down, on any platform, by a long shot. Performance, smoothness, battery life, mobile integration, password management, the list goes on. I had to support and still know by heart the bugs and idiosyncrasies of IE 5, 6, 7, 8 etc. I have no sympathy for people who say Safari is the new IE.
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I have to use Chrome on a Mac because Safari refuses to support multiple profiles. I'm a fan of compartmentalization, so my side-business saved passwords are different than my personal saved passwords. Apple would prefer that I create two separate accounts on my Mac (and the annoyance of syncing dotfiles between the two), but Chrome just lets me switch between users seamlessly. It seems like such an easy feature to a…
I’m using Brave for the same reason - compartmentalisation via profiles (“People”). Keep LinkedIn and other data vacuums quarantined, thank you very much.
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I guess, but I will keep blocking them whether they are mobile apps or web apps. Few apps have any business sending notifications.
Agreed! I don’t know why anyone would want that. And even Apple is getting bad with their own notifications. I just got one from Apple Music yesterday about the Super Bowl. WTF? I had to turn off Notifications for that now, too.
It means people can start developing apps for the web that will basically work on any platform that can run a browser. A huge step forward for the web platform that has so far been stunted by Apple's unwillingness to support these web standards
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You can't do proper adblocking (e.g. uBlock Origin) on Safari. That's why I don't really use it except when on battery and out travelling - and even then I'll often avoid using Safari since ads are so awful. Yes, I've tried the Safari adblockers, they suck. As far as I can tell they do marginally more at best than a DNS block. Once you can't use uBlock Origin with Chrome due to the proposed Manifest V3, Firefox will…
I use Wipr and I rarely ever see an ad
That said if uBlock is a requirement, there’s Orion[0] which is a WebKit-based browser that supports both the Chrome and Firefox version of uBO on both macOS and iOS.
Safari is the new IE6. It's always going to be the weakest / furthest behind major browser.