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Same here. Safari day to day and Edge/Firefox for dev tools Safari ticks all the boxes for me: - Power consumption - Minimal UI that is elegant and easy on t

Same here. Safari day to day and Edge/Firefox for dev tools Safari ticks all the boxes for me: - Power consumption - Minimal UI that is elegant and easy on the eyes - Font rendering is much nicer (especially when compared to Firefox) - Enter a word in the search bar and usually Siri will show you the exact website and just select it to go there. Other browsers will take you to search page first then you select the first result to go there - SMS integration for 2FA - Bookmarks UI is so much cleaner than any other browser. Speaking of bookmarks, why the fuck does Edge and Firefox store any bookmarks created on your phone or tablet under a separate top level section "Mobile Bookmarks"? It is just so unnecessary and adds needless UI interaction just to get to it.

bredren 6y ago
Do you use content filtering / ad blocking technology in conjunction with Safari? Last I tried to use Safari, it seemed some of the most common tools could not be plugged in / added on to the browser.
- arafsheikh 6y ago
  AdGuard works fine with Safari. I also use NextDNS on top.
- vladvasiliu 6y ago
  Safari is my daily driver too. Last I checked UBlock origin and Privacy Badger didn't work I'm using AdGuard, on both desktop and mobile. It works well enough for my needs.
- drevil-v2 6y ago
  I use 1Blocker and StopTheMadness. Both via the Mac App Store. Works great. Another 2 handy extensions: Tabs to Links and Tab Spaces. I don't have any affiliation with any of these extensions; just a satisfied user.
- AnonC 6y ago
  Safari 13 eliminated the previous extension scheme. So there’s no more uBlock Origin and similar blockers (there are content blockers, which work differently from uBlock Origin). Since the ad blocking extensions are lists of content to be blocked that’s given to Safari, one is better off using NextDNS or pi-hole for blocking ads (these will work across all apps too).
- jsf01 6y ago
  Not as simple as just downloading an extension, but one could use a PiHole or similar network-wide ad blocking.
- Diesel555 6y ago
  Wipr is great. Both iOS and MacOS. Safari + keychain is unbeatable IMO. I tried onePassword and I use Brave for dev (Chrome has too much CPU usage, and firefox for Grid debugging). I run Brave / Safari / Chrome / Vivaldi. I find myself in Safari most outside of Dev (zero inside dev).
ytch 6y ago
The two cons of Safari for me are: - No AV1, Webp decoder - No stable bookmark sync cross browser (for example, icloud bookmark sync to another Firefox in Windows is not stable) except to these, Safari is still my daily browser.
dTal 6y ago
>- Enter a word in the search bar and usually Siri will show you the exact website and just select it to go there. Other browsers will take you to search page first then you select the first result to go there Huh? That's exactly what Firefox's "Awesome Bar" does.
- drevil-v2 6y ago
  Not really. Say I type in “Ikea” into Safari address bar and I have never visited Ikea.com nor is it in my bookmarks; the first option is “Siri suggestions... Ikea.com”. Either click on it or down+enter to go directly to Ikea.com With Firefox, with the same starting conditions, there is no way to directly go to ikea.com by just typing in Ikea. If there is no history or bookmark then it will take you to a search for Ikea instead
  - robin_reala 6y ago
    In Firefox ctrl+enter prepends www. and appends .com to whatever word you’ve typed in the address bar, then loads it. So for www.ikea.com, just type ikea then press ctrl+enter.
    - drevil-v2 6y ago
      That was just a simple example. The safari implementation is better, I type in “price” and it expands that to “Priceline.com”; just press enter to go directly there, otherwise either keep typing to narrow or down arrow and enter to search
      - fsflover 6y ago
        I use Duckduckgo for search and when I enter anything in the address bar and append !, then I am automatically redirected to the first result of the search. Works perfectly in Firefox.
noelsusman 6y ago
As usual with Apple, Safari is great as long as you only ever use Apple devices.
- fomine3 6y ago
  Sync Safari data like bookmarks with Windows/Android is pain.

bredren 6y ago

Do you use content filtering / ad blocking technology in conjunction with Safari? Last I tried to use Safari, it seemed some of the most common tools could not be plugged in / added on to the browser.

arafsheikh 6y ago
AdGuard works fine with Safari. I also use NextDNS on top.
vladvasiliu 6y ago
Safari is my daily driver too. Last I checked UBlock origin and Privacy Badger didn't work I'm using AdGuard, on both desktop and mobile. It works well enough for my needs.
drevil-v2 6y ago
I use 1Blocker and StopTheMadness. Both via the Mac App Store. Works great. Another 2 handy extensions: Tabs to Links and Tab Spaces. I don't have any affiliation with any of these extensions; just a satisfied user.
AnonC 6y ago
Safari 13 eliminated the previous extension scheme. So there’s no more uBlock Origin and similar blockers (there are content blockers, which work differently from uBlock Origin). Since the ad blocking extensions are lists of content to be blocked that’s given to Safari, one is better off using NextDNS or pi-hole for blocking ads (these will work across all apps too).
jsf01 6y ago
Not as simple as just downloading an extension, but one could use a PiHole or similar network-wide ad blocking.
Diesel555 6y ago
Wipr is great. Both iOS and MacOS. Safari + keychain is unbeatable IMO. I tried onePassword and I use Brave for dev (Chrome has too much CPU usage, and firefox for Grid debugging). I run Brave / Safari / Chrome / Vivaldi. I find myself in Safari most outside of Dev (zero inside dev).

ytch 6y ago

The two cons of Safari for me are: - No AV1, Webp decoder - No stable bookmark sync cross browser (for example, icloud bookmark sync to another Firefox in Windows is not stable) except to these, Safari is still my daily browser.

dTal 6y ago

>- Enter a word in the search bar and usually Siri will show you the exact website and just select it to go there. Other browsers will take you to search page first then you select the first result to go there Huh? That's exactly what Firefox's "Awesome Bar" does.

drevil-v2 6y ago
Not really. Say I type in “Ikea” into Safari address bar and I have never visited Ikea.com nor is it in my bookmarks; the first option is “Siri suggestions... Ikea.com”. Either click on it or down+enter to go directly to Ikea.com With Firefox, with the same starting conditions, there is no way to directly go to ikea.com by just typing in Ikea. If there is no history or bookmark then it will take you to a search for Ikea instead
- robin_reala 6y ago
  In Firefox ctrl+enter prepends www. and appends .com to whatever word you’ve typed in the address bar, then loads it. So for www.ikea.com, just type ikea then press ctrl+enter.
  - drevil-v2 6y ago
    That was just a simple example. The safari implementation is better, I type in “price” and it expands that to “Priceline.com”; just press enter to go directly there, otherwise either keep typing to narrow or down arrow and enter to search
    - fsflover 6y ago
      I use Duckduckgo for search and when I enter anything in the address bar and append !, then I am automatically redirected to the first result of the search. Works perfectly in Firefox.

noelsusman 6y ago

As usual with Apple, Safari is great as long as you only ever use Apple devices.

fomine3 6y ago
Sync Safari data like bookmarks with Windows/Android is pain.