Safari does get updated more often than the OS, though. It isn’t entirely tied to OS updates.
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Do you like using non apple browsers on the Mac?
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It not so much about the sites but the ads. Ads are distributed in networks, often with little oversight and can appear on perfectly reputable sites. Those ads can contain all sorts of sketchy code.
A whole lot of that ad nonsense went away when I started using PiHole on a Raspberry Pi Zero. The online experience is completely different, for the better, when ads get lost in a DNS black hole instead of infesting your network.
I personally don’t like any other browser. Safari is my favorite. If I was on Windows I’d use Edge. I hate Chrome, it’s the biggest POS browser out there (it literally can’t even update a stored password for weeks after I change it on any of my systems, which is pathetic). Firefox has gotten better but it’s still not something I care to use.
You do not need to . You can use free dns from ControlD or Adguard. It will have the same effect.
Using PiHole gives the advantage of controling everything, blocking whatever you want , and set it up exactly like you want. ControlD and Adguard they decide what gets blocked and what does not , but its free and hassle free.
I stay with Safari unless there is a website I need that doesn't want to load properly. If that happens, I use FireFox.
Started with Netscape Navigator on a PC when it first came out, stayed with Firefox when I moved to Macs in 2002, and have stayed with it ever since. Safari has never shown me a good reason to switch.
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Netscape Navigator was my browser and e-mail app for many years. I have retained a netscape.net e-mail address even though Netscape was sold to AOL. I doubt that there are many of those accounts still around. I've only run into one other person who has one.
At the moment I am using Orion+ on my macs and iphone beecause it's even faster than Safari and supports Chrome/Firefox extensions and has an excellent ad/tracker blocker built in; Firefox+Vivaldi in Kali Linux for pentesting (Vivaldi for regular browsing and Firefox for use with Burp Suite and ZAP thanks to the handy containers feature).
how you see Orion faster? i never noticed anything faster with it. Its more closer to "lightweight"
Maybe it was just an impression because I am testing Ulaa now and seems faster still
its chromium browser, which means it uses the Blink enginge. Should be just as fast in rendering website as Chrome and Brave and Edge.
I refuse to install Chrome (or any other Google app) on my devices because I hate how they do invisible automatic updates without warning or user intervention in the background. I want to be in control of new software being installed on my computers. When Safari updates Apple tells you when, why, and asks your permission to do it. Google, nope, just trust us, we know more than you do. Not acceptable. Google, stop being evil.
Safari is Apple's native browser, renowned for seamless macOS integration and a strong emphasis on privacy, performing perfectly within the ecosystem. I use Chrome as an alternative for specific testing, extensions, and certain websites, particularly those associated with Google. Being a cross-platform browser, it facilitates syncing across devices, including PCs and Linux. However, I am not fond of Chrome's tracking practices and have recently explored Brave, a lighter, performance-optimised browser that prioritises a privacy-centric experience. That being said, my primary browsers are Safari and Chrome.
As long as you do not care about a 3-4 year old exploit:
'iLeakage' Flaw Can Prompt Apple's Safari to Expose Passwords, Sensitive Data
Security researchers uncover a way to siphon information from a Safari browser window by exploiting a 'speculative execution' flaw in Apple's Arm-based chips.
A little more on the exploit:
Researchers Break Apple’s New MacBook Pro Weeks After Release | Research
A Georgia Tech researcher has successfully evaded security measures on Apple’s latest MacBook Pro with the M3 processor chip to capture his fictional target’s Facebook password and second-factor authentication text. By the end of his demonstration video, Ph.D. student Jason Kim showed how the...
