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Which is better? Safari or Chrome?
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The only real advantage I have found with chrome on iPhone is that you are allowed as many tabs as you like. No limite to the amount of open tabs. This I found very usefull as I hate when I have to many tabs and safari starts closing some of my tabs to make room for the new tabs I have opened. I find myself using chrome way more.
As far as rendering pages they both use the same "engine" and Safari actually has access to the faster Nitro JavaScript engine, so overall it would be faster/better in terms of actual loading and use of content. As far as browser features, that's more or less a personal preference. With iOS 7 Safari will be improved in various respects too, like no tab limits and better full screen abilities, among other things.
I prefer Chrome only because of the synching of bookmarks. I don't like Dolphin for some reason. It just doesn't do it for me. If it would import Chrome's bookmarks, maybe. But for whatever reason the GUI of Dolphin puts me off.
Why don't you try Mercury? Nice interface, adblock, gestures, syncing with Chrome, dowmload to Dropbox and more
I totally agree with you. Actually, they are defined by personal use. If people get used to one, they will suggest other people about that one. So, there is not too much difference. Each one has each advantage.
I like safari and chrome. I tend to use dolphin as it has a private mode which saves clearing temp and historic files every so often, I'm a clean freak!
Why don't you try Mercury? Nice interface, adblock, gestures, syncing with Chrome, dowmload to Dropbox and more
Thanks, I'll look into Mercury. I haven't heard of it until you mentioned it.
Safari is the best mobile browser ever. iCloud bookmarks sync is better than Google sync too. It just is.
I use Safari purely out of convenience - every link opens in it, plus all my tabs from my Mac sync over via iCloud.
well, chrome is way better. but i think you should wait, there's a big safari update coming which might change your final decision.
Yes you can sync them. On Mac with Safari, and on Windows with IE. It works quite well.
As for the original question:
In iOS 6 I prefer Chrome due to the unlimited tabs and tab switching interface. But on iOS 7 Safari is IMHO much better than Chrome including ulimited tabs, a fast tab switching/preview and easy access to bookmarks with large site icons. Also iCloud keychain works like a charm.
In terms of speed, yes Safari has Nitro, but Chrome has page preloading* which compensates for the speed difference.
*By default preloading is disabled on 3G/4G and only on for WiFi but you can change that in settings.
I know you can do this, but I was being sarcastic with the OP on this. It simply amazes me that people think that Google is the only one that can do anything at all.