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I don't know about that Safari ranking. I get a super-fun rainbow wheel at least 2 or 3 times a day on Safari with only 3 or 4 tabs, and I rarely get that thro

I don't know about that Safari ranking. I get a super-fun rainbow wheel at least 2 or 3 times a day on Safari with only 3 or 4 tabs, and I rarely get that through chrome with upwards of 30. Before you give a score to every browser, why don't you back it up with something objective?

sydneysider 11y ago
I noticed the adblock extension on safari makes it freeze up for a second when I open a new tab. apart from that, soooooo much snappier than chrome. (desktop, not mobile ofc)
- masklinn 11y ago
  extensions in general are a huge issue for all browsers, it's easy to install a bunch of them and not notice your performances going down until a few months later, at which point you blame the browser (even for developers, evaluating the performance impact of extensions can be difficult). That's especially true for content-alteration extensions like ad-blockers as it's very easy to implement them in ways which work well enough with few rules but degrade superlinearly at scale. That's a big part of the issues Firefox has/had (not to mention the "depth" available to XUL extensions), but it's not like other browsers are immune.
  - tajen 11y ago
    One shouldn't let an extension with access to all the pages run continuously. I wait for the day a famous extension like Awesome Screenshot will be pirated and publish everyone's bank account credentials... Of course, between "should" and the reality, there's room for tolerance.
- MBCook 11y ago
  I had that same problem with Adblock. Much happier now on Safari and uBlock.
  - sydneysider 11y ago
    Link for ublock on safari? I looked but my google-fu is lacking I guess
    - MBCook 11y ago
      It's not, you're right. I use Ghostery on my Mac and 1Blocker on my iPhone.
coldtea 11y ago
He specifically talks about MOBILE versions of these.
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- bluejekyll 11y ago
  No. He mentioned desktop and mobile.
  - coldtea 11y ago
    Read the article more carefully. He mentions the desktop BRIEFLY, but it's not the topic of the article, which is 99% mobile Chrome.
eridius 11y ago
Which sites are you loading in the tabs? These days Safari actually shows that rainbow spinner when the background process that runs the tab is hanging, even though Safari.app itself is perfectly responsive. This usually is indicative of a problem with a site loaded in one of the tabs in the window (I believe Safari does process separation per-window), as opposed to a problem with Safari or WebKit itself.

sydneysider 11y ago

I noticed the adblock extension on safari makes it freeze up for a second when I open a new tab. apart from that, soooooo much snappier than chrome. (desktop, not mobile ofc)

masklinn 11y ago
extensions in general are a huge issue for all browsers, it's easy to install a bunch of them and not notice your performances going down until a few months later, at which point you blame the browser (even for developers, evaluating the performance impact of extensions can be difficult). That's especially true for content-alteration extensions like ad-blockers as it's very easy to implement them in ways which work well enough with few rules but degrade superlinearly at scale. That's a big part of the issues Firefox has/had (not to mention the "depth" available to XUL extensions), but it's not like other browsers are immune.
- tajen 11y ago
  One shouldn't let an extension with access to all the pages run continuously. I wait for the day a famous extension like Awesome Screenshot will be pirated and publish everyone's bank account credentials... Of course, between "should" and the reality, there's room for tolerance.
MBCook 11y ago
I had that same problem with Adblock. Much happier now on Safari and uBlock.
- sydneysider 11y ago
  Link for ublock on safari? I looked but my google-fu is lacking I guess
  - MBCook 11y ago
    It's not, you're right. I use Ghostery on my Mac and 1Blocker on my iPhone.

coldtea 11y ago

He specifically talks about MOBILE versions of these.

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bluejekyll 11y ago
No. He mentioned desktop and mobile.
- coldtea 11y ago
  Read the article more carefully. He mentions the desktop BRIEFLY, but it's not the topic of the article, which is 99% mobile Chrome.

eridius 11y ago

Which sites are you loading in the tabs? These days Safari actually shows that rainbow spinner when the background process that runs the tab is hanging, even though Safari.app itself is perfectly responsive. This usually is indicative of a problem with a site loaded in one of the tabs in the window (I believe Safari does process separation per-window), as opposed to a problem with Safari or WebKit itself.