Is there any real benefit to any other browser than Safari?

[EugW]

I'm pretty die-hard with Safari. If I had to estimate, I'd say maybe 5% or less of websites I go to work badly or break with Safari. I guess everyone's personal mix would be different, but the vast majority of what I do works just fine. Still, yeah, you gotta have a backup browser around.

5% is still significant, but in my experience it may be more like 10-20% of the sites I visit where it matters (eg. financial institutions, government, internet service and cellular providers for account info, etc.

What's worse is when it seems to work but actually doesn't, in a way that hides that it is not working properly. For example, for my pension plan website, the web page looked normal, but it was actually missing a few options on the page. I ended up calling up the telephone support and they walked me through it. When I mentioned I couldn't see some of the options on the page that they thought should be there, finally I switched to Chrome and everything was there.

 

[stephenschimpf]

I use Safari, and have no problem with it, but I found one case where I had to install and use Chrome. When I looked at my Apple ID on Safari, I found I had set up an alternate email address in case I needed to recover access to my Apple ID. I wasn't going to renew that domain and didn't want anybody who has it in the future getting recovery information for my Apple ID.

Every time I tried to change or delete that email address, it wouldn't work. The message on the Apple ID website said to complete the process on my iPhone, but there's no way to do that. I even talked to Apple and the guy on the phone told me there's nothing he can do about it.

Eventually I googled it and luckily found one guy who said he was able to do it using Chrome. I installed Chrome, went to the Apple ID website, deleted the recovery email address...and it worked! Somebody about Safari prevented me from doing that. Of course, right after that I deleted Chrome, but I did find something that required me to user another browser, at least briefly.

 

[SnowCrocodile]

A browser is a browser.

I use whatever works the best on the OS that I am on atm.

For Apple devices this means Safari.

For Windows this means Edge. It is actually very, very good. It's Chrome the way it was supposed to be.

If I used a Chromebook I'd use Chrome; otherwise you couldn't pay me to even install it.

The times when I wanted every bell and whistle and fancy fart in a browser are long, long gone...

 

[jagooch]

I’m back on Firefox across my Linux, Windows, and macOS computers. It has much better bookmark management and extensions than Chrome, especially since Chrome dropped support for the uBlock extension.

Safari would probably be my choice if I only used Apple devices, though.

 

[MacDaddyPanda]

I use multiple browsers. I was using Brave exclusively but then performance issues started cropping up or odd behaviors. So now I just use different browsers for each use case type. Brave for YouTube, firefox for social media, safari or Edge for shopping, Safari or Brave for personal financial management. I like Brave mainly because I had multiple profiles set for all those activities I mentioned. Better ad blocking and privacy. And just general performance seemed better. But with Sequoia it seems to have introduced audio problem when I was using all Brave only youtube audio would completely cut out. Not sure what triggers this. But it almost never happens if I only use the one instance of Brave. Hence resorting to different browsers.

 

[edubfromktown]

I’m back on Firefox across my Linux, Windows, and macOS computers. It has much better bookmark management and extensions than Chrome, especially since Chrome dropped support for the uBlock extension.

Safari would probably be my choice if I only used Apple devices, though.

I still get random beachball crapola with Firefox (on M1 Studio Base Max) and in the past had a few instances of ugly performance on this system and MBP's during some of the updates.

Threw in the towel and went back to Chrome so Keep, Google Contacts, etc. play nice across Chromebook and Mac's.

 

[haddy]

Brave for me too, browse the internet largely without adverts and cookies tracking you.

Same for me. I only use Brave. Never Safari. Or for that matter any other browser.

 

[benwiggy]

Anything apart from Chrome is a good choice.

 

[Sully]

Firefox Container Tabs. Great for privacy. Isolate your social media from your banking from your work, etc.

Aren’t Safari Profiles the same thing as Firefox Containers?

 

[splitpea]

Aren’t Safari Profiles the same thing as Firefox Containers?

I don’t know - they’re newer and I haven’t used them.

Can you have different profiles running at the same time in different tabs of the same window?

Can you pin a site to always open in a specific profile?