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I find it faster and more power efficient. It also fits with the rest of macOS much better than Chrome. Many long time Mac users are fussy about app consistency
by interpol_p 10y ago
I find it faster and more power efficient. It also fits with the rest of macOS much better than Chrome. Many long time Mac users are fussy about app consistency.
For example, initially Chrome and Firefox didn't even support text services in their rendering areas — stuff like the system-wide dictionary lookup. That the developers of these browsers ignored what made macOS unique really put me off. (As did hitting the dictionary shortcut on my keyboard when reading and not getting a result.)
One feature I use a lot in Safari is the reader view. Pressing a button turns a page into a consistently rendered and better-typeset version which focuses on the content only. It even collates multi-page content into a single page. I'm sure there are extensions on Chrome which do this (perhaps it even does it natively now?). But Apple's treatment of this feature makes me feel that they prioritise the same things about the web that I do: text and links. Everything else is just noise because I spend 95% of my time on the web reading.
Chrome still does not feel like a first class citizen of macOS. I'm not sure it even saved website passwords in your Keychain, though maybe this has changed.
Edit: oh I also like Safari's gesture based controls better when browsing with a trackpad. For example when you swipe to go back to the previous page, the entire page slides over and you can peek at the previous page underneath the "stack." You don't even need to trigger the actual back action to read content from the previous page if you naturally let your fingers rest mid-gesture. Last time I tried Chrome the "go back" gesture displayed a large, ugly arrow overlay on the left edge of the page. It did not correlate 1:1 with the position of my fingers. It did not show me the previous page's content until I completed the gesture, then it reloaded the previous page. I really did not like this.
- leadingthenet 10y agoAll of your points still remain true to this day, however Firefox does indeed have a reader view which works pretty nicely. No Keychain integration is an issue for me as well.
- Jerry2 10y ago>One feature I use a lot in Safari is the reader view. This is one of the primary reasons why I used Safari when on Mac. Reader view is instantaneous and works really well on almost every site. You can also customize fonts/colors etc which means you can always read article in distraction-free mode and read them that best suits your eyes. I am now using Linux most of the time (MBP got stolen, didn't buy a new one yet) and I miss Reader view the most. It's a HUGE timesaver.