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I just purchased the Mac Mini October 2012, Came pre installed with Mountain Lion. What is recommended or performs the most efficient regarding web browsers.
Also any hot tips to having a smooth running Mini?
Thank You all in advance for any assistance
Dev
I just purchased the Mac Mini October 2012, Came pre installed with Mountain Lion. What is recommended or performs the most efficient regarding web browsers.
Also any hot tips to having a smooth running Mini?
Thank You all in advance for any assistance
Dev
Personal choice between Chrome or Firefox. Safari just can't really compete with either on stability, speed, extendibility, performance or security.
Honestly maybe even Opera. I would really recommend anything but the bundled Safari web browser. It's just like Internet explorer, it's the worst possible option for the OS, let a company that specializes in web development and web software make your web-browser don't use some bundled crap that's just there to try and affect some market share or something.
For me I use Chrome and it literally destroys Safari. It's more up to date, lots of sites load faster, it has much better pdf support and several other document viewing options, youtube plays better and it has much better support for html5 unlike safari, hell it even outperforms Safari in Apples own SunSpider javascript benchmark. On top of all that I have all my bookmarks, extensions, login info, etc synced between all my devices and I can easily sync up with any computer running windows, osx or linux.
Using Safari is just purposefully making your web experience worse. Especially if you are going to dual boot because Safari got killed on Windows.
Just don't use Safari.
/rant
I have Opera, Firefox, Safari and Chrome all on my Mac. To be honest, just to test the stability and useful features of all the browsers, I use them all on a daily basis. (Actually, except for Chrome. It not only hogs Ram and lags with many tabs open, but Google is fishy about the privacy of that browser anyway.)
I personally love Opera. Since Opera has convenient page previews that pop out of the tabs, i's really easy to pick out the right page, especially when I have a lot of tabs open. Opera also allows "Stacking" or putting tabs into virtual "folders" of tabs, so I can sort the tabs I like by category or relevance to me. Opera also features "Turbo," which speeds up web rendering speeds on slow wifi. All said, Opera is my favorite browser.
I like to use Firefox for certain things as well, but the recent (and still unresolved) issue of typing lag keep me away from using Firefox too much. Another thing that bugs me is that Firefox doesn't support Magic Trackpad gestures nearly as well as any other browser available.
(Good to note: Firefox 19 added a great in-browser PDF viewer. It's really convenient if you need it.)
And Safari, while Safari seems to be derided often, it's really not as bad as it's made to sound. If you're using a trackpad, the zooming and swiping smoothness aren't matched anywhere. Bookmarks and syncing with iOS devices is really nice, and that's really the majority of what I use Safari for, using iCloud tabs from my iPod, when I want to look at sites that I was reading previously. Otherwise, the weird tab "limit" (while not a true limit, the tabs stop displaying fully in the browser, and have to be found from a pop up) is really annoying for me, as I always have a lot of tabs open anywhere else, so it's tough to use Safari for regular browsing. If you do settle on Safari, I recommend glims for Safari, as it makes it easy to switch out and use different search engines besides the "regular" defaults. (I'm really partial to DuckDuckGo)
So there's my two cents, I strongly recommend Opera. It's the most well rounded browser of any that I've used.
I personally love Opera. Since Opera has convenient page previews that pop out of the tabs, i's really easy to pick out the right page, especially when I have a lot of tabs open. Opera also allows "Stacking" or putting tabs into virtual "folders" of tabs, so I can sort the tabs I like by category or relevance to me. Opera also features "Turbo," which speeds up web rendering speeds on slow wifi. All said, Opera is my favorite browser.
I like to use Firefox for certain things as well, but the recent (and still unresolved) issue of typing lag keep me away from using Firefox too much. Another thing that bugs me is that Firefox doesn't support Magic Trackpad gestures nearly as well as any other browser available.
(Good to note: Firefox 19 added a great in-browser PDF viewer. It's really convenient if you need it.)
And Safari, while Safari seems to be derided often, it's really not as bad as it's made to sound. If you're using a trackpad, the zooming and swiping smoothness aren't matched anywhere. Bookmarks and syncing with iOS devices is really nice, and that's really the majority of what I use Safari for, using iCloud tabs from my iPod, when I want to look at sites that I was reading previously. Otherwise, the weird tab "limit" (while not a true limit, the tabs stop displaying fully in the browser, and have to be found from a pop up) is really annoying for me, as I always have a lot of tabs open anywhere else, so it's tough to use Safari for regular browsing. If you do settle on Safari, I recommend glims for Safari, as it makes it easy to switch out and use different search engines besides the "regular" defaults. (I'm really partial to DuckDuckGo)
So there's my two cents, I strongly recommend Opera. It's the most well rounded browser of any that I've used.
Chrome often gets laggy on my 2012 MBP. Although I think it needs a new look, Firefox is generally speedier these days. Plus NoScript just can't be matched by any Chrome extension - the wide range of security solutions offered by NS is second to none.
Anything besides Chrome, really. Right now, between Opera, Safari, and Firefox, Opera takes the lowest number of CPU threads, while running the highest number of tabs. Firefox and Safari are near the same, tying for second.
That doesn't given software developers an excuse to write their application to consume all RAM. People multitask. I remember the days when you could run a browser on a machine with 4 MEGABYTES or less.
If the OS is using it for cache, sure. But if its a buggy pile of crap that leaks memory for no good reason, that's something else.
Safari first, then Firefox - steer clear from Chrome and its terrible interface.
Never really gave it much thought
Over the years I have just used whatever I happen to click on, and have not been analytical about the differences. It kind of surprised me that it is something people get passionate about.
Over the years I have just used whatever I happen to click on, and have not been analytical about the differences. It kind of surprised me that it is something people get passionate about.
As you can see from all the other posts favouring each one in turn, it's entirely personal preference. Try them yourself, choose one.
My advice for a smooth running Mac: Leave it alone!
Don't run any cleaning apps, maintenance apps, monitoring apps, or anything which unnecessarily modifies the OS, like cosmetic changes to the interface.
Just use it for the things you do.
Just amazed, why only few people like this Webkit. Really fast, smooth and equipped with features from Safari transparently.
Was using Chrome until I tried Webkit. I absolutely love it and for me, it is faster than chrome
That malware is not a virus and it only runs on Windows. It cannot affect your Mac in any way.
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-0019
i like chrome for certain things/better experiences, but that is usually because it is also a google product like Google + group video chatting. I've noticed on chrome it runs a lot better w/ no lag, but when I use it on safari, my comp gets hot and there are some lag issues.
however, as of recent, chrome is giving me some facebook problems. I can't comment/like or see any comments/likes. I also thing chat isn't working. can't seem to find a fix.
so in short, i use both chrome and safari. Just depends what for.
however, as of recent, chrome is giving me some facebook problems. I can't comment/like or see any comments/likes. I also thing chat isn't working. can't seem to find a fix.
so in short, i use both chrome and safari. Just depends what for.
I like Safari, and I would use it, but I can't. Since it crashes every 30/40mins of usage on my mac (I've also formatted the mac but no way, safari still crash a lot), so I switched to Chrome and I'm happy... it's faster than safari (I'm using the dev 28) but it ugly... if only safari don't crashes
It's not the browser itself, but rather what Google does with the data that comes and goes through the browser. Like logging keystrokes, watching the entire search and download history in the browser, etc. This all for the sake of "advertising," which for some (Myself included) just isn't worth it.
