Safari
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Safari is much better optimized than the Mac version of Chrome and has been for several versions. It will run faster and give you much better battery life. Google doesn't seem to spend much effort on optimizing code for (at least) the Mac version of Chrome. No idea if that's true on other platforms.
I've been using Chrome on my MBA as well and it's a huge memory hog. Multiple instances of Chrome Helper running (one per tab, maybe?) in the activity monitor. I don't use many extensions - WOT, Adblock Plus, something that charts an item's price when on Amazon, Speed Dial 2. Maybe one or two more that I'm forgetting. Pretty sure all are available for Safari. Might have to run it for a few days to see how I like it.
Yaz4Ever said:
I've been using 64 bit Chrome Canary for Mac that quietly launched since last August maybe ? It's excellent and has only had usability problems twice in that time period. It's updated daily so issues are resolved quickly when they do arise. Example, about a month ago launching an incognito window would crash the browser, was fixed in about a day. The other issue escapes me, it was something last fall. So every couple months I use regular Chrome or Safari for a day which I probably do every so often anyway (with Safari).
link for early adopter types who don't mind playing around with alpha / beta stuff https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/canary.html
I test drive Safari probably every few months for the last couple years and I just can't get it to take. Since 64bit Canary came out I haven't really looked back.
It really bugs me that Yosemite, and Yosemite Safari in particular, enforces center-aligned everything. I like the links in my bookmarks bar to be left-justified, and the url in the address bar left-justified. I also like my tabs to be one size (regardless of how many are open) and left-justified. Safari has slowly broken all of this; Glims allows some of it to be restored (like tab length and orientation) but the url thing in particular really bugs me and I haven't gotten used to it. To copy part of a url, you click on it and watch it slide away from you over to the left. It's maddening. (I also used to pin my dock to the left corner in OSX, but the command line pref setting to enable that has also stopped working in 10.10). I don't understand the basis for enforcing those choices, so I'm forced to think it's an aesthetic preference of Jony Ive's (or whomever), which is extra bothersome.
Browser-wise, I would use Chrome (and do for development) but the handoff and airdrop features that now work quite well between Mac and iPhone keep me using Safari on both platforms.
Browser-wise, I would use Chrome (and do for development) but the handoff and airdrop features that now work quite well between Mac and iPhone keep me using Safari on both platforms.
Obsolete, in part.Flunky said:
9to5mac.com/2014/06/03/ios-8-webkit-changes-finally-allow-all-apps-to-have-the-same-performance-as-safari/