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Apple's attention really is turned to the mobile space today, and the non-mobile Safari suffers for it.
I like the idea of iTunes and open it occasionally but after a day or two of using it, I am reminded of just how bad it really is.
I've found that browsers have become a study in small touches and interesting niches. Firefox, for a long time, had a lock on the "I want to mod the hell out of this" niche. Meanwhile, as trite as it sounds, I couldn't leave Safari for the longest time because I had become addicted to the address bar also showing load progress.
These days, I use Chrome, but not because of speed. I use Chrome because I have become addicted to OpenSearch (the "Press tab to search this site"). Apple's refusal to merge the address bar and search bar used to be forgivable, but it is increasingly becoming a pointless distinction to hold out on (and will cost them market share).
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Chrome ruined Safari for me. When I fire up Safari more often than not I end up doing this: http://i.imgur.com/nDk2R.png
http://hackemist.com/SafariOmnibar/
Really annoying.
The answers are pretty obvious. 1. Chrome is marketed all over the web (and in real life) and bundled through shareware. Google is spending a tremendous amount of money to market Chrome. Apple is not doing that with Safari. 2. Safari is the default in OS X, but OS X is still small compared to Windows. 3. Safari on Windows is not as fast as Safari on OS X, presumably because Apple cares more about one than the other,…
Using John Gruber's publicly reported stats as one data point, Safari commands a majority share on Mac OS X.
I'd guess that's as much because Safari is the built-in, default option on OS X and iOS as it is because Safari is just super awesome. The more interesting thing to me is that all of my (Mac-using)coworkers have switched over (mostly from Firefox) to Chrome, despite Chrome's overall jankyness on OS X.
Really, the only thing that prevents Safari from being the "worst" mainstream browser is the existence of IE.
It's not awful. It just pairs mediocre performance with fewer features and lower extensibility.
This article arrives at the answer and keeps walking. It points out that most people who have used it think Safari on Windows sucks, but somehow refutes that with the fact that it's only a little slower than Firefox and it's version 5.1. What?
The answers are pretty obvious. 1. Chrome is marketed all over the web (and in real life) and bundled through shareware. Google is spending a tremendous amount of money to market Chrome. Apple is not doing that with Safari. 2. Safari is the default in OS X, but OS X is still small compared to Windows. 3. Safari on Windows is not as fast as Safari on OS X, presumably because Apple cares more about one than the other,…
Using John Gruber's publicly reported stats as one data point, Safari commands a majority share on Mac OS X.
Safari's integration of bookmarks and reading lists over iCloud is just such a useful feature to have out of the box. I switched back to Safari just for that. Keeping all my devices in sync is a huge gain over slightly faster rendering times.