Safari bogs down on many sites for me, I find that Chrome/Brave is generally faster, and the ecosystem of extensions is outstanding for Chrome/Brave/Chromium browsers while it’s quite terrible for Safari.
Above I mentioned the DecentralEyes extension. A little more: DecentralEyes is available for Firefox andChromium-based browsers for enhanced privacy when sites you visit simply track you via the CDNs used when loading pages. As the dev noted on a Reddit thread, “a lot of websites let you load vital files through large third-party services (like Google Hosted Libraries). There are a couple of reasons why web developers are tempted to do this. It lowers upkeep costs (as these services do not cost the host any money), and it speeds up the web in the sense that if you store a specific version of a file once, you will only contact that central content delivery service too see if the file you have is identical. The fact that these companies are now deeply woven into the fabric of the web, and that telling them off actually breaks a significant percentage of all websites, made me build this add-on. It comes bundled with a fair amount of commonly used files, and serves them locally whenever a site tries to fetch them from a delivery network.”
Safari ain’t got nuthin’ like that.
And that’s just a pointillist example of the privacy add-ons that Apple’s browser doesn’t have wrt privacy. And since Brave (a Chromium fork that has Google’s tracking code pulled out by the roots) uses Chrome extensions, it means I can use the 1Password extension too.
FYI I listed some of the extensions I use in Chrome/Brave in the discussion below - most of these extensions are simply unavailable for Safari.