Safari is more energy-efficient than Chrome and Firefox on OS X

Post by msbarnett » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 8:45 PM UTC

waxjar wrote: post #78

x0054 wrote: post #71

For a long time I have been trying to switch to Safari, but the UI just does not work for my use case. I really need tabs with site icons, and an address bar that goes side to side and does not auto center text. Are there any good alternatives to Safari that also use WebKit? Something that would be more efficient, but with a more traditional interface. To each his own, of course, but it would kill apple to make some…

I like the UI, especially after they adopted Chrome's "don't resize the tabs when the mouse is in the tab bar and the user is closing tabs" feature. The only thing I really miss in Safari is searching websites using a prefix.

Post by brazzledazzle » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 8:47 PM UTC

mattangriffel wrote: post #83

kitsunesoba wrote: post #57

I think it's important to highlight that these benefits aren't exclusive to Safari; they encompass all of WebKit on OS X. Unlike Google who has inexorably tied Blink to Chrome, Apple pours most of its efforts into WebKit itself. As such, any developer using WebKit, especially on OS X, gets these benefits. A great example is how each browser handles per-tab processes: with Chrome, this architecture is part of Chrome i…

Does that mean these findings should hold true for iOS as well?

Post by brazzledazzle » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 8:51 PM UTC

DavideNL wrote: post #75

x0054 wrote: post #71

For a long time I have been trying to switch to Safari, but the UI just does not work for my use case. I really need tabs with site icons, and an address bar that goes side to side and does not auto center text. Are there any good alternatives to Safari that also use WebKit? Something that would be more efficient, but with a more traditional interface. To each his own, of course, but it would kill apple to make some…

For me it's the other way round, i've been trying to use Firefox but the "pinch to zoom" feature in Safari is so smooth, and so crappy in Firefox, that i always keep coming back to Safari... If you read a lot of text on a Macbook, being able to zoom quickly and efficiently becomes a high priority. Things like this are much more important for me than energy-efficiency.

Post by Steko » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 9:05 PM UTC

ArtDev wrote: post #85

melling wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hasn't Don Melton discussed in a number of podcasts that Apple places a priority on energy efficiency? Battery life is a key selling point for Apple devices. Chrome's priorities have simply been different.

Except battery life is really bad on Apple devices. Compared to Samsung at least (my Galaxy Note4 that has a 3-day battery life).

Post by bumblebritches5 » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 9:15 PM UTC

mattangriffel wrote: post #83

kitsunesoba wrote: post #57

I think it's important to highlight that these benefits aren't exclusive to Safari; they encompass all of WebKit on OS X. Unlike Google who has inexorably tied Blink to Chrome, Apple pours most of its efforts into WebKit itself. As such, any developer using WebKit, especially on OS X, gets these benefits. A great example is how each browser handles per-tab processes: with Chrome, this architecture is part of Chrome i…

Does that mean these findings should hold true for iOS as well?