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Anyone else sick of Safari?

And, a Simple answer.
I really don't have many problems with Safari, but -- If a browser does not work for what you need - use a different browser for those tasks.
I tend to go to Edge for a few sites - just works better, at least for me. Firefox would be another worthy choice.
There's absolutely no requirement to use Safari, despite the fact it is included.
I like to use what works for me.
 
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TrancyGoose said:
A Simple question.
Anyone else sick of it? I get that it's integrated in to Mac OS and all, but so many websites, just refuse to load properly and work, despite Apple's boastings in improvements. Why is this?
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Is it? Since it's the default browser on Mac and iOS, general website support is actually very good on Safari. I use Brave, and I have had more websites broken on Brave than Safari. Even Google put Safari as officially supported browser for the productivity suite, while they don't even support Brave (Google Docs and Sheet are broken on Brave, at least for me, while they all work fine on Safari).
 
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TrancyGoose said:
A Simple question.
Anyone else sick of it? I get that it's integrated in to Mac OS and all, but so many websites, just refuse to load properly and work, despite Apple's boastings in improvements. Why is this?
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I don’t think I have had any issues with Safari. Looking back, I don’t remember a website ever being “Broken” and not loading properly on my Mac, iPhone, or iPad.
 
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I love Safari. I don't love that it doesn't work with every website. And I generally prefer a browser that works with everything. This is mostly the fault of web developers not supporting Safari. Google hates Apple. They refuse to make YouTube TV work with Safari. Literally every other TV streaming service works with Safari. I despise having to use another browser just to use a service.

Safari extensions are pretty garbage though. And there's never feature parity between extensions. An extension that works in a Chromium browser is always more feature-rich than the Safari version. It's irritating. Again, not Safari's fault, but still annoying to have to switch between browsers.

ian87w said:
Is it? Since it's the default browser on Mac and iOS, general website support is actually very good on Safari. I use Brave, and I have had more websites broken on Brave than Safari. Even Google put Safari as officially supported browser for the productivity suite, while they don't even support Brave (Google Docs and Sheet are broken on Brave, at least for me, while they all work fine on Safari).
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If a site is not working in Brave, it's because you need to turn off fingerprinting for that website. I have no issues with Googe's suite of products in Brave. It's literally Chromium. Disable Brave's built in ad blocking features if there are compatibility issues. I generally turn off all of Brave's built in ad blocking because it breaks sites and use AdGuard instead.
 
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More like they are optimised for Chromium ....
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That is because Safari is really a nightmare to web developers. We run a small website that serve a very specific set of users, and during development we found Safari simply refused to support web standards that both Chrome and Firefox supported (like 120hz animation! believe it or not all Safari animation is limited to 60hz). And there were also several-years-old bugs that were left unfixed which broke our website. So we decided to drop Safari altogether. They could either use our app or install Chrome/Firefox. We don't have the resource to build another page for Safari.
 
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singularity0993 said:
That is because Safari is really a nightmare to web developers. We run a small website that serve a very specific set of users, and during development we found Safari simply refuses to support web standards that both Chrome and Firefox supports (like 120hz animation! believe it or not all Safari animation is limited to 60hz). And there are also several-years-old bugs that were left unfixed which broke our website. So we decided to drop Safari altogether. They could either use our app or install Chrome/Firefox. We don't have the resource to build another page for Safari.
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I'm greatly annoyed that I have to modify my family's business website to work specifically in Safari when I can leave it alone and have it work fine in Firefox and Chromium-based browsers. I have to do special tweaks to make it work and it's very unnecessary. Safari is very fast, but it does not follow web standards like Firefox and Chromium. I wish Apple would be more on the ball with this.
 
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Cognizant. said:
I'm greatly annoyed that I have to modify my family's business website to work specifically in Safari when I can leave it alone and have it work fine in Firefox and Chromium-based browsers. I have to do special tweaks to make it work and it's very unnecessary. Safari is very fast, but it does not follow web standards like Firefox and Chromium. I wish Apple would be more on the ball with this.
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Safari follows its own sets of standards, which are often outdated and react slowly to changes. If it wasn't for its tight integration into the system and the rivalry engine ban on iOS, I don't think people will choose Safari over Chromium/Firefox. Safari is the new IE.
 
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I was. Getting major memory leaks in safari even with latest 12.4 Monterey update.

Got sick of it and the BLOAT in Monterey. 12.5 GB in size and you NEED an M1 Chip to be snappy again.

So I just went back to Mojave. 5GB in size.

My 27" iMac i9 is happy again.
 
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Hello,

I'm personally using Safari on all my Apple devices and I never had any problems with it, nor did I become sick of it. I did try Chrome or Firefox, but I found those two browsers less well optimized on Mac.
 
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TrancyGoose said:
A Simple question.
Anyone else sick of it? I get that it's integrated in to Mac OS and all, but so many websites, just refuse to load properly and work, despite Apple's boastings in improvements. Why is this?
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I think that answers your question.
 
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singularity0993 said:
That is because Safari is really a nightmare to web developers. We run a small website that serve a very specific set of users, and during development we found Safari simply refused to support web standards that both Chrome and Firefox supported (like 120hz animation! believe it or not all Safari animation is limited to 60hz). And there were also several-years-old bugs that were left unfixed which broke our website. So we decided to drop Safari altogether. They could either use our app or install Chrome/Firefox. We don't have the resource to build another page for Safari.
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Cognizant. said:
I'm greatly annoyed that I have to modify my family's business website to work specifically in Safari when I can leave it alone and have it work fine in Firefox and Chromium-based browsers. I have to do special tweaks to make it work and it's very unnecessary. Safari is very fast, but it does not follow web standards like Firefox and Chromium. I wish Apple would be more on the ball with this.
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These are both alarming and saddening comments. Apple should definitely straighten this up.
 
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