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This looks like an appropriate thread to post my safari rant. Here goes. I've been trying to use safari on my laptop ever since I found out that it enables muc
by perryizgr8 5y ago
This looks like an appropriate thread to post my safari rant. Here goes.
I've been trying to use safari on my laptop ever since I found out that it enables much better battery life compared to chrome (almost 2x).
But there are just so many stupid annoyances. The address bar is non-deterministic. I enter first three letters of a site I visit very often, and press enter. In chrome, it always takes me to my site. In safari it does that 9 times out of 10. But one time it will do a Google search for the entire web address of my website!? How is this even possible? I can't understand what abominable logic is running underneath that this can happen.
Another stupidity is that home and end keys either don't do anything, or they do something entirely unexpected.
I still use it because the battery usage is just so much better.
- stillblue 5y agoIs this on an M1 Mac? Is the difference in battery usage enough to shift to safari? I quit safari a while back cos it did some very weird things and I've been using Chrome but it is very heavy on memory and battery life.
- perryizgr8 5y agoNo this is a 2020 Intel Macbook 13. In my experience the battery life is wayyyy worse with Chrome. I don't even use the browser that much. Most of the time it is open in the background with 10-12 tabs. With Chrome, I was running out of juice in 2-3 hours. With Safari it is easily 5-6 hours before I need to reach for the charger.