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I was a Web Dev for about a decade and I swore by Firefox (started using at 0.6) and then later I switched to Chrome. Recently I've been solely focused on mobi
by joeblau 10y ago
I was a Web Dev for about a decade and I swore by Firefox (started using at 0.6) and then later I switched to Chrome. Recently I've been solely focused on mobile application development and I don't really need most of the development tools that Chrome offers (even though Safari has most of them). At the end of the day, I just need a fast browser without bloat to go here, stack overflow, google, web-based documentation sites, github, product hunt, designer news, youtube and a few other sites.
Chrome is extremely bloated and resource intense on macOS. Each subsequent tab you open linearly increase your CPU and memory Usage. I need CPU cycles to build code, not load gifs from a website that I have in the background. Safari has way better memory and CPU management than any other browser on macOS. The only thing I use Chrome for are websites that require Flash since it's built in.
I just had my friend who uses Chrome take a screenshot of his Activity monitor - He has one "Google Chrome Helper" that's using more resources than my entire Safari browsing experience - http://imgur.com/pMHkKsz http://imgur.com/pMHkKsz