Every so often I need to quit Safari and relaunch it or it can hang. Haven't used Chrime enough to see if it does that.
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Chrome vs. Safari: what are you using?
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Of the two I use Safari more than Chrome. I've always found Chrome to be a resource hog and it lacks good privacy settings. I use Firefox much more often than either of them, though. It works better on my older iMac.
I have chrome installed to open flash dependent website. But now that I'm thinking about it, it's been a while since the last time I opened such website.
FOrget the war guys, my mac is restarting itself whenever i am watching any flash video using chrome, i hate Os Sierra update, never in life was i this frustrated with a mac before 
Safari for general browsing, Chrome for web development. Since Sierra, I've been having a lot of issues with Safari which is leading me to use Chrome more often.
I've always used Safari exclusively on all of my devices, except for a brief tryst with Chrome about 5 years ago when Lion sent Safari's memory leak out of control. Then I moved back when Chrome sprung a leak.
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I was a die hard Firefox fan for years (Mac & PC). But now that I've switched to Apple completely I am only running Safari, which has gotten much better in its recent iterations IMO. It's also so much more convenient as everything is perfectly in sync including passwords via Keychain.
I use Firefox and Chromium (https://sourceforge.net/projects/osxportableapps/files/Chromium/?) Same code as Chrome less the data mining.
Chromium uses open-source libraries instead of Chrome's closed-source ones. So it's not the same code. But it's the same browser base and javascript engine.
Stuff like the PDF engine, h264 video decoder, Flash etc are different, because Google Chrome cannot opensource those commercially licensed libraries.
It tends to have lots of bugs that even Chrome dosen't have. many vids sites like Twitter/Instagram won't even play in Chromium.
chrome - only use safari for one-off pages with lots of spam cookies required for correct functionality
Thanks everyone for your replies. I've been experimenting and I am still somewhat torn. There are definitely some things I prefer about Safari, like Reading List, keychain (though I'm a diehard 1Password user so not sure how much this matters), PiP, better battery life, ApplePay (though it's not yet common I believe it will be), and just tighter integration into the OS.
However, there are certain websites I use several times a week—like the video conferencing app for my
medical practice—that don't work with Safari but do with Chrome. I'm told this will change in the near future. I like the UI with Chrome and do find it to be a bit faster. I also like that I can right-click to use Flash on the few sites that still require it, which unfortunately I come across on a daily basis. This allows me to avoid installing Flash on my system, but still use these sites.
I've evaluated this Chrome vs. Safari question many times over the years, and I was hoping there would be a clear winner this time. Unfortunately there isn't—at least for me.
However, there are certain websites I use several times a week—like the video conferencing app for my
medical practice—that don't work with Safari but do with Chrome. I'm told this will change in the near future. I like the UI with Chrome and do find it to be a bit faster. I also like that I can right-click to use Flash on the few sites that still require it, which unfortunately I come across on a daily basis. This allows me to avoid installing Flash on my system, but still use these sites.
I've evaluated this Chrome vs. Safari question many times over the years, and I was hoping there would be a clear winner this time. Unfortunately there isn't—at least for me.
Until Safari allows selective pop-up allow/block (or even a hotkey to turn off pop-up blocking), it's chrome for me.
Can't imagine how you all use Chrome, it is an absolute resource hog for me. On a mid2010 mbp, maybe that's it.
Safari is easily the lightest and quickest browser for me. Enjoying PIP, and surprised it doesn't really make my machine stutter at all. Still trying to play around with Sierra.
Safari is easily the lightest and quickest browser for me. Enjoying PIP, and surprised it doesn't really make my machine stutter at all. Still trying to play around with Sierra.
I agree and I'm using a '15 15" rMBP 2.8GHz/16GB & 1TB PCIe SSD - while not the latest in silicon and GPU technology, it's fast as hell IMHO - I've owned two of these - 2012 15", the first with a 768GB SSD - not PCIe and I had zero complaints
That said, the 2015 I'm now driving daily truly does scream and regardless of the unnoticeable detriment Chrome's 'causing' by eating available resources including CPU & memory taxes... just the idea drives me nuts when I have to use it.
I'm with the Safari camp. The continuity via Handoffs w/my iOS devices, family and my business related surfing separation, reading list, keychain, 'auto fill' and password/credit card info security (possibly perceived?) as well as the extremely small resource footprint and phenomenal performance... I was actually surprised with the split population on this thread
Figured it would weigh heavily in favor of Safari, especially with (possibly perceived?) personal security, passwords and financial info as daily browser business ...figured folks who invest in a Mac would choose speed, integration and aggregation, and security over the alternative?
I'm surprised - iOS and OS X yesterday, macOS today (& tomorrow) other than the few mandatory times necessary to pull Chrome from its application coffin, I'm definitely a happy Safari user
Safari 99% of the time, when I have to use another browser for testing etc... Then It's Firefox or Chrome via a VM. Chrome is an absolute dog, look at the number of processes it throws up when you open it.... plus the data collection google does just leaves a bad taste.