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Which browser do you use and why?

I like to use Firefox and think it is better than Safari in terms of speed and compatibility with many websites. I use Safari occasionally and always go back to Firefox. I am on an older OS as well and Firefox regularly receives security updates.
 
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Madhatter32 said:
I like to use Firefox and think it is better than Safari in terms of speed and compatibility with many websites. I use Safari occasionally and always go back to Firefox. I am on an older OS as well and Firefox regularly receives security updates.
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Firefox is good. If I wasn't using an Android tablet, I would stick with Firefox as my primary browser.
 
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I use Safari in my Macbook 12" 2017 and Firefox for Windows. In my Macbook I like to install High Sierra (yes, this little beautiful machine is no powerful) so Safari in High Sierra is really really fast and fluid but is an old version so..

At this time I'm using Catalina to see the performance and I can say that Safari in High Sierra is more fluid
 
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aespana said:
I use Safari in my Macbook 12" 2017 and Firefox for Windows. In my Macbook I like to install High Sierra (yes, this little beautiful machine is no powerful) so Safari in High Sierra is really really fast and fluid but is an old version so..

At this time I'm using Catalina to see the performance and I can say that Safari in High Sierra is more fluid
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how much GB of ram is in the MacBook?
 
I recently switches from Chrome over to Vivaldi. Really like the tab mgmt compared to Chrome :)
Also it supports all Chrome plugins and so on.. since it's built on chromium.
 
VitoBotta said:
I have been using Brave for a while but I am trying Firefox again now after many years. What makes you choose a browser over others?
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Chrome due to major compatibility over the web (layout, plugin etc.)
Safari for Prime Video due to Chrome issues (for unknown reasons HD streaming is not supported).
 
Safari. on Mac and iOS. Works fine for me, never have understood people saying there's all these issues and it seamlessly sync across devices.
 
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Sheepish-Lord said:
On desktop I use Chrome now that Safari acts weird on a lot of media websites. On Twitch it eats up huge amounts of memory and if you leave the video quality on auto it never goes higher than 720p so I have to manually switch it each time which eats up more memory (2GB+ after 30min-1hr). As of today, I noticed that YouTube doesn't automatically use HD when watching videos and you have to manually do it which is incredibly annoying. Additionally, some of my work websites don't play very well with Safari or require workarounds and adblocking programs aren't nearly as efficient vs Chrome.

Chrome as come a long way honestly. There's lots of customizable security settings, far more than Safari, and if you have a Google account everything syncs up across your accounts if you want it to. If Google's "security" settings aren't super effective I have almost every filter in uBlock Origin active to ensure as much privacy as possible albeit the internet is never fully secure. Based on this I feel safer in Chrome and the people that hate on Chrome I ask you, do you hate Chrome because it's the cool thing to do? You can trust what any company says when it comes to privacy.

Lastly, Chrome actually gets updated routinely instead of waiting for a quarterly, bi-annual, or annual update of the OS *cough* Safari.
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See.... none of this happens for me* and the last sentence is just not accurate (and I don't need weekly updates anyway. I want actual changes when i get updates). In fact, Safari recently has been implementing new features as fast or faster than other browsers.

Chrome is RAM hog. But if it works for someone, that's fine.

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*obviously the work websites aren't something I can test but that's usually more a fault of the authoring than anything else - internal devs often target one official browser for ease of IT support.
 
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Up until a couple of weeks ago, I was using Mosaic, but it's starting to showing its age a bit too much. :)

Seriously, I use Safari most of the time on the Mac, with Firefox always available for the too many websites that don't work properly in Safari. I only use Chrome to watch YouTubeTV, as it seems to play better than the other browsers. I've tried Opera and Brave, but they just don't do much for me. On Windows, which I really only use for gaming, I use Firefox, and on my iPhone it's Safari and occasionally DuckDuckGo, if I want to be a little more careful about privacy. I'm looking forward to trying the Mac version, for that same reason, but alas am just on the wait list. Finally, while I don't it much since retiring, I turn to Firefox for Linux.

So why Safari, if has so many problems with some web sites? I like the simple integration with Mac/iPhone browsers, sharing passwords, bookmarks, reading lists, history, etc, without yet another online account knowing those things.
 
I use Safari most of the time, but Firefox if I have to do something for my wife using her schools servers. They seem to want Firefox. They told her to use Chrome and it slows her machine down, heck she only has 8G of RAM in her 2015 air. Anyway, for me I can use both.
 
On my Air M1 I have 15 Safari windows open and in between them there are easily 50 tabs open (probably more, but I am too lazy to count). Total ram usage is 597MB for Safari. Before I have used Chrome and it would crush a system with that many tabs open, especially on battery. Ram usage by Chrome is counted in GB, not MB.

I've been using Safari for the last 5 months only but it has won me over and moved all my bookmarks and passwords to it.
For the occasional use on Windows I use Edge because I can use the iCloud extension in it and also have access to my stored passwords.
 
tominco said:
... the too many websites that don't work properly in Safari. ...
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So I'm curious... do you (or anyone here) have sites that you can link that don't work in Safari? Because I only use Safari and just don't see this that I can remember.
 
Brave. It's by far the fastest, especially with the built-in ad blocking. And it syncs between all platforms as well as using all Chrome extensions. It's also the only browser / ad blocker that blocks Google tracking on the Chrome Web Store.

And everything works with it because it's Chromium-based.
 
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