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Where can I get a good idea of the current market shares? My gut tells me the default browsers Safari and Edge still have a dominate share among people that don
by jasonkostempski 9y ago
Where can I get a good idea of the current market shares? My gut tells me the default browsers Safari and Edge still have a dominate share among people that don't care. For years I've installed Firefox with uBlock Origin for people that ask me to set up their machines, no one has ever complained about speed or site compatibility and I've never had any issues myself.
- azinman2 9y agoI use Safari and I care. I actually don’t understand why it’s not used more for people on macOS. Granted I have an iPhone so the syncing works well between the two, but aside from that it really is a better browser for me than chrome. Faster for sure, better UI, lower memory usage, and better rendering of text. I don’t use a lot of extensions, but now having a faster mechanism for Ad blocking (by building the blacklist set into the engine vs a JavaScript layer on top) makes my primary extension usage even better! Safari has been making investments that chrome hasn’t. I’ve confirmed this with a former Chrome team developer who told me they started turning off unit tests that prevented startup time blowing past some milisecond threshold after the business asks were deamed more important. Can’t wait for servo to finally land and hopefully Firefox will smoke them all once again.