What Internet Browser Do You Use

[MacBH928]

Yeah, no thanks Lol

Brave FTW!

Safari is stable and light for me. I have 100+ tabs opened. Computer operates like its nothing. No fans no heat nothing. I have not tested other browser performance.

That being said, Brave+FF are much more capable and open source. I am sure Safari is finicky with rendering some stuff although not sure if its the site designer fault or Apple Webkit's.

Brave is a fantastic choice lest it is based on the Google Chromium project and its Blink enginge is monopolizing the internet.

I use Safari except for the occasional thing it doesn't work for. Then I go for Firefox.

I bounce between a couple Macs and my iPhone, and using Safari everywhere is nice for a unified history and also iCloud Tabs.

My wife falls into using Chrome on her little retina MacBook sometimes and it slows it down horribly and then I have to remind her to not use it.

Use Brave in light mode/theme. Looks same, operates maybe better with privacy. For free.

 

[nobodyjustwalks]

Safari... Apple purposely went to all this trouble optimizing it for Big Sur (not to mention previous OSs) so why not use the most efficient engine for Mac. Using Safari on Intel based MBPs was a no brainer, saved battery and every little bit helped. If not Safari then, like everyone else, Firefox. FF is Safari's cousin. Privacy focused, fast, innovative, but most importantly not a battery and resource hog like Chrome. That said, I always kept a version of Chrome updated with full bookmarks as if it were my main browser because of Google FOMO... lol. Good to keep up with browser innovations.

I will say that one area where Firefox has Safari beat (and the reason why I use it almost as much as Safari) is its Picture in Picture setting. I can use it on Youtube, Netflix, Prime, etc. Such a wonderful thing to be able to miniaturize what I'm watching and then to swap desktops or tabs to a news article and have your video playing in a small screen. The feature runs efficiently and doesn't eat up much CPU or RAM.

 

[neuralengine]

The current state of browsers on modern Macs is unfortunately pretty sorry. Safari is probably the best browser overall at the moment, now that it can do 4K video playback.

Chrome and all Chromium browsers (Edge, Brave, Opera etc.) have terrible scrolling (especially stuttery on the AMD 5500 XT, but I have never seen a Mac on which Chrome’s scrolling was acceptable – though I hear it’s not bad on the M1 Macs), Firefox has completely messed up colour management on wide-gamut displays (which is now the entire Mac lineup) and Safari has non-standard implementations of lots of web technologies (including some fundamental ones like flexbox), and is still missing support for increasingly mainstream features (e.g., requestIdleCallback, WebP images).

Yes, I know that disabling GPU acceleration on Chromium browsers makes scrolling better, but that has its own bugs. And there are hidden config flags you can toggle to make Firefox stop making everything super saturated but there are bugs in that as well, notably with video playback.

 

[iHorseHead]

It's weird to see that I'm not the only one using Edge. It's actually pretty good

 

[neuralengine]

It's weird to see that I'm not the only one using Edge. It's actually pretty good

I like Edge a lot! It is my favourite of the Chromium browsers. I use it a lot for work. Microsoft doing some great stuff there.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

I do nearly all internet-related things on iOS's Safari via an iPad, because we're a bit better off with iOS's exposure than that of a full OS. Our real computers are kept on a separate intranet cut off from the internet entirely, again for security reasons.

So I guess, iOS Safari for better security, and none at all, for maximum security.

 

[Machspeed007]

I use Edge as well, because it syncs with windows desktops that I also use. Fast and low resources on the mac.
Safari is even lighter on the memory footprint but I have scrolling issues in some sites and find it difficult to sync with other browsers.

 

[Jay-Jacob]

I use Safari for all my Apple devices. I have used many browsers and Safari for me fastest and smoothest and very rarely problems and never crashed so far.

I also have Firefox for rare website that Safari don't quite work fully.

 

[MBAir2010]

Safari, but Edge blocks more ads, responds better to duck duck go searches and does not track me.
but edge has a tedious cache and history clearing process and gathers more info storage wise.
If only safari was on windows 10 id be happy-r!

 

[MacBH928]

I do nearly all internet-related things on iOS's Safari via an iPad, because we're a bit better off with iOS's exposure than that of a full OS. Our real computers are kept on a separate intranet cut off from the internet entirely, again for security reasons.

So I guess, iOS Safari for better security, and none at all, for maximum security.

Just so you know, all iOS browsers are Safari with a different skin. Apple will not let others use a different web engine. That also does not mean if you use Chrome Google will not collect their data on you.

If you have computers separated from the net, how do you install apps on your intranet?

Safari, but Edge blocks more ads, responds better to duck duck go searches and does not track me.
but edge has a tedious cache and history clearing process and gathers more info storage wise.
If only safari was on windows 10 id be happy-r!

Safari and Edge don't block anything. An extension added to them blocks ads. Depends on Which you use. For Edge I recommend uBlock Origin and Safari "Adguard for Safari". Note Edge+Chrome will soon release updates that limit adblocking. Search for "manifestv3" if interested.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

If you have computers separated from the net, how do you install apps on your intranet?

Everything runs on VM’s, so IT builds new Masters around AutoDesk & Dassaults necessary annual updates & SP’s, then configs, tests w/ the machinery etc, & once they’re proofed, everyone is updated overnight. Updates are actually pretty seldom. About 2/3 of the time, Catia & Inventors updates aren’t even relevant to us, and really, that’s the only software that matters all that much. At first it seemed like it would be a hassle, but it turns out it’s the easiest way to satisfy ITAR regs possible. Allllllll the problems eliminated with that are great, but once we all got used to the pre-broadband norm again, of computers being interconnected but offline, the thought of doing or having anything of importance on a computer anywhere, work or home, and just leaving it connected to the internet all day & night seems so reckless it’s unthinkable.

 

[LizKat]

Firefox for me unless some site I use does something stupid and FF doesn't load or won't run without disabling stuff I don't want to disable... then after a little prowling around I switch to Safari or quit using that site until "someone notices no one's stopping by here any more". My days of bothering to let websites know they broke a widely used browser with a patch are over. I like Firefox because it runs well on my laptops of different vintages and having different MacOS installations. Safari maybe not so much, haven't checked it out too much lately though.

I actually avoid using a browser on my iOS devices for the most part, sticking to apps and most of them are for news or entertainment content. When something doesn't seem right on my laptop I can look at logs etc. No clue how that works on iOs devices and I don't fancy adding 3rd party apps to get there, if even possible without becoming a developer. So my iOS gear are black boxes to me; I respond in kind by not being very adventurous in using them.

 

[tranceking26]

Safari on both macOS and iOS. I have Firefox as a second browser in macOS.

 

[mlody]

Safari is my primary browser, but I occasionally use Edge for quirky sites that don't work well with Safari. I also use Brave for youtube only.

 

[minik]

I have three installed on my Mac, Safari (duh), Microsoft Edge, and Firefox. Safari is my primary browser on the main iMac screen, MS Edge is mostly for YouTube and weather maps on the second monitor. Firefox is for work on another desktop.

 

[MacBH928]

Everything runs on VM’s, so IT builds new Masters around AutoDesk & Dassaults necessary annual updates & SP’s, then configs, tests w/ the machinery etc, & once they’re proofed, everyone is updated overnight. Updates are actually pretty seldom. About 2/3 of the time, Catia & Inventors updates aren’t even relevant to us, and really, that’s the only software that matters all that much. At first it seemed like it would be a hassle, but it turns out it’s the easiest way to satisfy ITAR regs possible. Allllllll the problems eliminated with that are great, but once we all got used to the pre-broadband norm again, of computers being interconnected but offline, the thought of doing or having anything of importance on a computer anywhere, work or home, and just leaving it connected to the internet all day & night seems so reckless it’s unthinkable.

So you run Windows over Windows? and Store your files on a different drive? I don't think you can do this Macs, maybe I am wrong.
You are right, staying online 24/7 for everything is nuts. People just dont know what is going on in the background. I could skip on connecting my computer online but the trouble is software now is download only and has to be authenticated online like App Store.

 

[interbear]

I use Chrome and Safari every day on my MBP. Chrome for work - because it works better with a couple of websites I need for work. In fact one of those sites, Outreach, only works with Chrome. I use Safari for personal browsing, mainly because I like the password capabilities. I‘d ditch Chrome altogether if I could.

 

[MacBH928]

I use Chrome and Safari every day on my MBP. Chrome for work - because it works better with a couple of websites I need for work. In fact one of those sites, Outreach, only works with Chrome. I use Safari for personal browsing, mainly because I like the password capabilities. I‘d ditch Chrome altogether if I could.

Use brave, Its Chrome - google spy code

 

[sgtaylor5]

I’ve been trying out Brave on the desktop and on iOS and so far I’m liking it.

The only thing that I have seen that isn’t working for me is when I copy a webpage and use Services to dump it into a TextEdit document so I can process it before I dump it into Pages (because there isn’t a Service to capture it to Pages - wtf), the text is plain and there are no in-document links. If I dump it into Pages directly, the text inherits the title text and everything is huge and the resulting document is hard to edit.

If I copy and paste into Pages from Safari, the body text is around 16 points, but everything else is preserved correctly, and then I can edit it properly.

If I use the capture key and dump it into EagleFiler directly, then I get all the side bars and all of the other crap that’s on the page. Sometimes, if I use Reader mode it doesn’t feel like I’m getting the whole content, which is weird.

 

[ivanwi11iams]

Just started using a Mac Mini as my daily, so, Safari is it, for now

 

[Spacetime Anomaly]

Firefox on the Mac is pretty good now. I use it alongside Safari (still my default).

 

[MacBH928]

I’ve been trying out Brave on the desktop and on iOS and so far I’m liking it.

The only thing that I have seen that isn’t working for me is when I copy a webpage and use Services to dump it into a TextEdit document so I can process it before I dump it into Pages (because there isn’t a Service to capture it to Pages - wtf), the text is plain and there are no in-document links. If I dump it into Pages directly, the text inherits the title text and everything is huge and the resulting document is hard to edit.

If I copy and paste into Pages from Safari, the body text is around 16 points, but everything else is preserved correctly, and then I can edit it properly.

If I use the capture key and dump it into EagleFiler directly, then I get all the side bars and all of the other crap that’s on the page. Sometimes, if I use Reader mode it doesn’t feel like I’m getting the whole content, which is weird.

have you tried "paste and match style" from the EDIT menu in TextEdit?

 

[killr_b]

Edge because it syncs across all devices.

 

[sracer]

Edge because it syncs across all devices.

Because I have a chromebook in the mix of devices I use, Chromium-based browsers are important to me. I've been impressed with Edge on my Mac and Windows systems. Being able to earn Amazon gift cards through Bing faster by using Edge is just a bonus.

 

[southerndoc]

Because I have a chromebook in the mix of devices I use, Chromium-based browsers are important to me. I've been impressed with Edge on my Mac and Windows systems. Being able to earn Amazon gift cards through Bing faster by using Edge is just a bonus.

Huh? How do you earn Amazon gift cards through Bing?