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On a MacBook I've found its almost impossible to beat Safari, it works amazingly well and doesn't annihilate my battery life. Personal choice though, I'm not co

On a MacBook I've found its almost impossible to beat Safari, it works amazingly well and doesn't annihilate my battery life. Personal choice though, I'm not committed to any specific browser and all do certain things better than the rest.

fenomas 11y ago
Dunno, I think that depends on the content. I'm building a js-css-webgl game, and I find Safari is lucky to break 50% of the performance I get from Chrome/FF.
- PebblesHD 11y ago
  There's a few WebKit bugs filed about slow WebGL performance under both OSX and iOS Safari, I wonder what Apple is doing differently to Google/blink in the rendering pipeline to cause it?
  - fenomas 11y ago
    No idea, sorry. My guess is that it's the JS VM but I don't know how to check. I just tried running a profile, but Safari froze and beach-balled to death. When I do profiles in Chrome it drops from 60fps down to 45. :/ Fortunately for me, Safari also doesn't implement some HTML5 APIs I use (e.g. PointerLock), so I feel justified in pretending it doesn't exist.
TwoBit 11y ago
Safari does seem to be the battery life king. I wonder how it manages to do that. Could be related to why it's a slower performer than Firefox and Chrome.
- whyever 11y ago
  I think Apple invested a lot of resources in making software battery-friendly. I'm not sure this has happened yet for Firefox or Chrome.
  - gsnedders 11y ago
    So did MS, which is why IE often does better than others on Windows.
vetinari 11y ago
Safari doesn't sync with any android browser, making it no-go automatically (for me). Firefox, on the other hand, is the only browser that can sync between desktop-mobile and has adblock on both sides. Chrome unfortunately doesn't on the mobile side.
jbssm 11y ago
I try to se Safari, but tab management is awful. There isn't (as far as I know and I really searched for it) any kind of session management that allows me to keep a separation between my work browsing sessions and my home/personal projects sessions.

fenomas 11y ago

Dunno, I think that depends on the content. I'm building a js-css-webgl game, and I find Safari is lucky to break 50% of the performance I get from Chrome/FF.

PebblesHD 11y ago
There's a few WebKit bugs filed about slow WebGL performance under both OSX and iOS Safari, I wonder what Apple is doing differently to Google/blink in the rendering pipeline to cause it?
- fenomas 11y ago
  No idea, sorry. My guess is that it's the JS VM but I don't know how to check. I just tried running a profile, but Safari froze and beach-balled to death. When I do profiles in Chrome it drops from 60fps down to 45. :/ Fortunately for me, Safari also doesn't implement some HTML5 APIs I use (e.g. PointerLock), so I feel justified in pretending it doesn't exist.

TwoBit 11y ago

Safari does seem to be the battery life king. I wonder how it manages to do that. Could be related to why it's a slower performer than Firefox and Chrome.

whyever 11y ago
I think Apple invested a lot of resources in making software battery-friendly. I'm not sure this has happened yet for Firefox or Chrome.
- gsnedders 11y ago
  So did MS, which is why IE often does better than others on Windows.

vetinari 11y ago

Safari doesn't sync with any android browser, making it no-go automatically (for me). Firefox, on the other hand, is the only browser that can sync between desktop-mobile and has adblock on both sides. Chrome unfortunately doesn't on the mobile side.

jbssm 11y ago

I try to se Safari, but tab management is awful. There isn't (as far as I know and I really searched for it) any kind of session management that allows me to keep a separation between my work browsing sessions and my home/personal projects sessions.