I'm in a similar boat. Safari has surprised me lately - particularly its speed. That said, there are a couple things that always frustrate me with stock Safari

I'm in a similar boat. Safari has surprised me lately - particularly its speed. That said, there are a couple things that always frustrate me with stock Safari: 1) You can't reopen an arbitrary number of recently closed tabs. (You can use Command+z to "undo" closing one, but if you've closed two, or three, you're out of luck. I prefer how Chrome handles this. Though perhaps there are good reason to avoid this feature.) 2) Tabs don't have a favicon. They may be ugly sometimes, but with many tabs open favicons really simplify navigation. Of course, this can be fixed via 3rd party SIMBL extensions. Otherwise, using Safari has certainly been better than I expected.