How is Safari integration with DevonThink better than Chrome? I find the popup that says “Do you want to open this page in DevonThink Pro Office app” extremely annoying. Have you found a way to kill that?
I’ve used Safari Technical Preview as my primary for the last few versions (Apple releases a new version every few weeks; I’ve had it set as my default since favicons were added to tabs). It has been stable and I like its energy efficiency compared to Chrome (my previous daily driver). Not a huge Extensions user but have Duck Duck Go, 1Pass and other essentials. Definitely not the selection on Chrome but not a big loss for me at least.
Safari TP doesn’t “feel” quite as snappy as Chrome despite Apple’s claims of the fastest JavaScript engine. Rendering HTML is just as important to browser responsiveness as JavaScript execution speed. Wander if Chrome also does all kinds of pre-loading in the background, which would help explain some of its memory usage and power inefficiency.
Safari TP needs to a better way to handle having lots of tabs open. Chrome keeps the favicon visible even in a very narrow browser window (up to a point, then it starts hiding tabs):
Safari TP hides the icons for tabs on the left and, worse, makes tabs different widths when things get crowded even though tabs to the right have plenty of room:
To make things even more frustrating, tabs sometimes become unclickable when they get into this compressed state. The only way to access them is via ⌃Tab. Argh. With each new TP release I look for this to be improved but not yet.
I also sorely miss the Duplicate menu item available in Chrome via right-clicking on a tab. I use this constantly and need to figure out some Keyboard Maestro workaround (e.g. shortcut key to move focus to address bar and then ⌘ + 
to send current URL to a new tab…although I don’t like how it doesn’t open next to the current tab 
) but would be nice if this was just there.
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I seem to have settled on using Safari as my primary browser, and switching to Chrome when I need some particular extension. I do not like living the multi-browser lifestyle and wish Safari had better extension support.
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I use Safari because, in my experience, it is faster loading websites. I also like the user interface. It is consistent with the Apple experience. I find the settings/preferences in Chrome and Brave to be tedious and time consuming. I also use iCloud keychain in combination with 1Password. I use Chrome, Brave, and Firefox on occasion, but my go to browser is Safari.
I used Chrome for many years but over the last 6 months have moved across to Safari. This was mainly for two reasons - Chrome used too much memory and CPU and secondly integration with my iPhone and iPad.
FYI Chrome has always had bookmark and browser sync for iOS, although unlike with Safari closing a synced tab on iOS doesn’t close the tab on the Mac.
I use Brave on the Mac - it’s Google’s Chromium engine (also used by Microsoft’s browser as well as Opera and Vivaldi) with Google’s tracking code ripped out, and with ad-blocking built in (plus the ability to use hundreds of useful extensions that have no equivalent on Safari). I find it almost always faster than Safari, though, like Chrome, it can be a RAM hog. (But I have 40Gb RAM, and usually have a dozen tabs open at any given time, and it’s not a problem.)
Brave on iOS has sync - it’s a little more primitive on iOS, but it’s still in development.
I just cannot make my mind up when it comes to browsers for my MacBook. So, I’ve decided to use several. I currently have the following installed;
Safari
Microsoft Edge Beta
Chrome
Puffin Browser
Firefox
I use them all with Choosy and have done for a month or so now and wish I’d done it sooner!
I have rules for certain sites and apps and everything else pops up with a choice of what browser to use.
Choosy also has browser extensions to allow you to swap a site to another browser.
Brave for the security and privacy features.
Privacy. Firefox flushes cookies every time I close the browser.
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I am off social media, including LinkedIn. That is another story though. I stay with Safari and like so many use Chrome for one or two special tasks. I don’t need extensions. It is the native browser and I assume designed to integrate well. I find it does though my use is specifc and not very demanding technically I don’t think?
I have Cookie app flush cookies from all browsers ever 45 minutes. And it also eliminates persistent Flash cookies, HTML5 databases, localStorage, IndexedDB as well as browser history and caches if desired. (Originally mentioned this summer, but I’m continuing to use Brave as my main browser.)
I use Safari a lot, but have switched to Brave for many uses. Very fast & no ads. Runs without all the tracking overhead of Chrome. Runs Google apps & extensions just like Chrome … EXCEPT can not run Google Meet/Hangouts with audio (Video shows but my mic won’t work.).
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Easier to share open windows and favorites among devices.
edited to add Safari, somehow I lost that.
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I use Safari everywhere except at work due to the use of Google Drive/Docs/etc.
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Safari - I have a really plain use case, non need for specific features and don’t use extensions (just 1P, DT and 1Blocker). I like the integration in the Apple ecosystem and use some of the features quite heavily: iCloud tabs and reading list mainly.
I keep Brave (which I use on Windows PC at work) as a backup if something does not work properly.
I use Safari for personal stuff, Chrome for work stuff in Google Docs. Every so often I move over to Chrome thinking I’m going to use just one browser, but I always end up coming back to Safari.
I primarily use Ghost Browser (multiple session cookie pool is a lifesaver when working on several projects across businesses) - have been using it since the beta days in 2016. Occasionally use Safari/Chrome/Firefox for testing.
I use Firefox because they bake in a crazy amount of security into their browser. DoH is one of the biggest features that I stick around for, but their containers are also really nice.
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I’ve been using Brave for about a month now and I like it. I used to use Safari but for some sites, I was forced to use Chrome which I didn’t like to do. So now I don’t have to switch browsers for some sites.
I’ve kept my extensions minimal right now but I need to look into what would help me there.
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