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For me, on a Mac, I consider Safari dead in the water ever since they crippled its extension support, so that's a no-go. Chrome is made by whom I consider a pr
by johnny_b_g 4y ago
For me, on a Mac, I consider Safari dead in the water ever since they crippled its extension support, so that's a no-go.
Chrome is made by whom I consider a privacy rapist, so I refuse to use that. As for any Chromium derivatives - well, given its origins, I consider them tainted, so no-go as well on those.
That leaves only Firefox, which to me is quite capable and fast, and I really have no issues using it.
I do think governments should look closely at Chrome's monopoly, since it's Google's (or Alphabet, or whatever name-du-jour) power play in vertical integration/takeover for its own advantage, and way to crush competition.
- vimy 4y agoSafari uses Web Extensions now. You can import a Chrome/Firefox extension’s source code into xcode and you have a Safari extension. Doesn’t work for everything yet, I expect they’ll add more APIs this year at WWDC.
- SxC97 4y agoFWIW, I’ve been using the Orion beta on my Mac and it’s great. It’s a WebKit based browser with a built in ad blocker and tree style tabs and can run most Firefox and chrome extensions while having lower resource usage and better battery life than safari. A nearly perfect browser for me with only a few downsides. - Not available on windows or Linux yet - No open tabs sync across apple devices (yet, planned) - Doesn’t support all extensions (yet, also planned)
- CincinnatiMan 4y agoI use MS Edge on my Mac for its vertical tabs, and it's been fine. Maybe check it out.
- khedoros1 4y agoEdge...which is based on Chromium. They said they don't want to use any Chromium derivatives.